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Karl Barth: His Life from Letters and Autobiographical Texts is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

complete new version which preserved the old structure. As with the second edition of Romans, ‘here too hardly one stone remains on another’.221 Barth himself was amazed at the pressure with which ‘some demon or other is now forcing me write out everything twice’. But he thought that as a result ‘everything is coming out much sharper’.222 These Dogmatics shared with Romans a ‘protest against modern Protestantism (unfortunately all of it, apart from a few exceptions)’.223 This ‘protest’ was given
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