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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....

‘love’ and ‘freedom’ in the way in which the present section makes perfectly clear Barth intends them to be understood: as aspects of the eternal, triune life as manifest in God’s history with his people and ultimately in Jesus Christ.11 Every time Barth speaks of the divine loving or of the divine freedom, he is appealing to trinitarian categories. In light of all that was said in the previous chapter of the Dogmatics about the knowledge of God, Barth begins his exposition
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