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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.

As ministers we ought to speak of God. We are human, however, and so cannot speak of God. We ought therefore to recognize both our obligation and our inability and by that very recognition give God the glory.1 Barth begins his Church Dogmatics with a volume on the doctrine of the Word of God. In I/1 he offers an Introduction and then two chapters: ‘The Word of God as the Criterion of Dogmatics’ and ‘The Revelation of God’ (of which only the first of
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