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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...

How do we know God? And who is the God who can be known? As Europe was once more tearing itself apart, Karl Barth was asking these questions not as some intellectual speculation or idle game but in order to remind the Church that it had its own specific task to perform. Were these questions to be answered correctly, the Church would be strengthened in its mission to serve humankind, which had been elected in Christ to be God’s own covenant partner and friend.
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