Karl Barth (1886-1968) was the most prolific theologian of the
twentieth century. Avoiding simple paraphrasing, Dr Gorringe places
the theology in its social and political context, from the First
World War through to the Cold War by following Barth's intellectual
development through the years that saw the rise of national
socialism and the development of communism. Barth initiated a
theological revolution in his two Commentaries on Romans, begun
during the First World War. His attempt to deepen this during the
turbulent years of the Weimar Republic made him a focus of
theological resistance to Hitler after the rise to power of the
Nazi party. Expelled from Germany, he continued to defy fashionable
opinion by refusing to condemn communism after the Second World
War. Drawing on a German debate largely ignored by Anglo-Saxon
theology Dr Gorringe shows that Barth responds to the events of his
time not just in his occasional writings, but in his magnum opus,
the Church Dogmatics. In conclusion Dr Gorringe asks what this
admittedly patriarchal author still has to contribute to
contemporary theology, and in particular human liberation.
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