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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...

can and must be explained in terms of their direct material causes, and history must be approached “objectively” and “scientifically” without judgment or speculation, proceeding from the evidence alone.6 But for all this stress on objectivity in historicist thought, there is often the assumption of some kind of underlying continuity of experience or “nature” among human beings, regardless of when or where they lived. If an event is attributed to a cause with which the contemporary historian has no
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