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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.

contribution to the church. Put most simply, actualism is the notion that God’s being is in his act or, as George Hunsinger puts is, that God lives in a set of active relations.9 Expressed more clearly, it is a concerted effort to acknowledge that the eternal God is manifested faithfully in temporal events.10 Especially when engaging philosophical debates about history and faith, many find a strong actualistic approach to theology in Barth and believe it flanks some of the philosophical objections
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