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This introduction acts as an efficient entry point into the philosophy and writings of a great thinker. The fast-paced narrative describes Barth’s early life, his background, and the political context in which his thinking took shape. In a comprehensive but clear way, this volume provides the reader with an overview of this theologian’s crowning work, Church Dogmatics, and a true sense of the...

After having mused about how best to respond to the spiritual challenge that was facing them, Barth and his colleague decided that they needed to return to ‘the strange new world within the Bible’. For Barth, this would mean a serious study of St Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, which began in earnest in June 1916. For the two young ministers of the Reformed Church, the Bible was utterly familiar and the least strange book in the world. But that, of course, was the point. Critical
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