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Karl Barth’s Emergency Homiletic, 1932–1933: A Summons to Prophetic Witness at the Dawn of the Third Reich is unavailable, but you can change that!

What does a theologian say to young preachers in the early 1930s, at the dawn of the Third Reich? What Karl Barth did say, how he said it, and why he said it at that time and place are the subject of Angela Dienhart Hancock’s book. This is the story of how a preaching classroom became a place of resistance in Germany in 1932–1933—a story that has not been told in its fullness. In that emergency...

in 1925, Barth recognized that one could not talk about revelation without considering the doctrine of the Trinity. God is Revealer, Revelation, and Revealedness: “God reveals Himself. He reveals Himself through Himself. He reveals Himself.”13 God the Father speaks, and what God speaks is Jesus Christ the Son, and the Holy Spirit from inside us speaks our “yes” to the spoken Son of the speaking God.14 Revelation means the Word of God spoken, constituted, and heard by God in such a way that a human
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