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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...

During the summer semester, Barth continued to lecture on dogmatics, and studied ‘The Theology of the Formula of Concord’ in his seminar and Augustine’s Enchiridion in his discussion group. The seminar began with new excitements. On 30 April he was summoned for a long cross-examination (among other reasons, because of his remarks to Macfarland the previous October, which by some roundabout way had become known to the Ministry of Cultural Affairs). Following this, he was temporarily put under
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