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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...

McCormack argues that Barth probably recognized that the Republic was in real danger in the aftermath of the September 1930 elections, when the National Socialists made their dramatic gains.55 While Barth’s differences with his dialectical comrades had been simmering for years, from this point on he began to take steps to distance himself from them.56 Once again Barth directed his political efforts toward his students. The open evenings at his home in Bonn in the winter of 1930–31 were all about
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