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Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics: An Introduction and Reader is unavailable, but you can change that!

This reader from Karl Barth’s multi-volume Church Dogmatics offers an introduction to the whole work, key readings in reasonable portions with introductions, and provides helpful pointers to secondary material for further interaction with the primary literature. An ideal textbook for all beginners studying the work of one of the most important theologians of the last century.

else it will be misleading. In reading through his work, certain patterns emerge that become helpful for reading any given part.16 Many a reader has gone wrong in biting off a small portion of text, coming across one aspect of Barth’s argument or even a hyperbolic claim and thinking this is his settled view. The best way, then, to read Barth is to wrestle with fairly lengthy portions of his text selected from across the Church Dogmatics. You need to trace his argument beyond a few pages in any given
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