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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.

Note that a metaphysical observation grounds a rhetorical and pedagogical practice. Barth believes human ethics flows from God’s command. Thus human agency is primarily discussed by means of divine gift, namely, the command given by God to creatures. Human ethical reflection is not autonomous, rather it must be tethered to the moral order commanded by God himself. Thus CD II/2 concludes his doctrine of God himself by looking to God’s command. Only then, in the wake of that ethics with respect to
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