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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...

neighbor presents to us the riddle of our existence, our finitude, our sin, and our death. In the figure of the neighbor a decision must be made regarding whether God is a mere phantom of metaphysics, a figment of our imagination, or if he is the unknown God who has spoken to us in Jesus Christ. Can we hear the voice of the One in the other, can we see the wholly Other in the other? In loving the neighbor as myself, I realize that not only am I one with God, but I am also one with the neighbor. In
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