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Karl Barth’s life was a remarkable triumph. An authentic “church father” of the post-Reformation era, the Basel professor’s contributions to theology, the life of the church, and the world of culture and politics have been noted at length. This work, however, presents extraordinary new information and insight based on his own correspondence and notes. What one finds in this work is Barth’s own...

from Schleiermacher—and from his Marburg teacher: ‘The last direct sign of life I received from Wilhelm Herrmann was an inscription, written in the year 1918. It bore the laconic words: “None the less, with best wishes from W. Herrmann.” ’187 Indeed Barth now even dissociated himself clearly from Ragaz and Religious Socialism, for all his acknowledgment of it and dependence on it. ‘Pacifism and social democracy do not represent the kingdom of God, but the old kingdom of man in new forms. The criticisms
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