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Letters of the Divine Word: The Perfections of God in Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics is unavailable, but you can change that!

The introduction locates Barth’s doctrine of the divine perfections within the unfolding logic of the Church Dogmatics and then surveys the state of Barth scholarship on this doctrine. Chapters one through four provide focused analysis of each of the four sections of Barth’s doctrine of the perfections, pausing at various points to address relevant debates within broader Barth scholarship....

theology’, in its concern to safeguard the divine transcendence, tends to separate God’s being from his dealings with humanity, as did Melanchthon. Modern theology, on the other hand, with its emphasis on divine immanence, tends to reduce God’s being to his dealings with humanity. Barth naturally wants to preserve what he considers the valid insights of each. In a crucial and definitive passage, Barth clearly explains how he understands the relation between God’s being and his act of revelation:
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