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Karl Barth’s 1922 The Epistle to the Romans is one of the most famous, notorious, and influential works in twentieth-century theology and biblical studies. It is also a famously and notoriously difficult and enigmatic work, especially as its historical context becomes more and more foreign. In this book, Kenneth Oakes provides historical background to the writing of The Epistle to the Romans, an...

A very natural question at this point is “Why did Barth revise his first edition?” Why is there a second edition of Barth’s commentary on Romans at all? This important issue will be covered in the chapter dealing with Barth’s prefaces to The Epistle to the Romans and some of the responses the two different editions generated. It was assumed for some time that the development of Barth’s theology underwent two significant “breaks” or “turns.”11 The first break, variously dated from
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