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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...

they wrestle with their words in relation to the Word, Jesus Christ, himself. Francis Watson summarizes Barth’s view: The Word of God that is uttered at the center must pass through the inner circle in its outward movement into the world; that is, it must be mediated by the Word of its first addressees. Because the content of the Word of God is the particular divine action constituted by the history of Jesus, in fulfillment of the prior history of the covenant with Israel, some people find themselves
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