Throughout his magnum opus, Church Dogmatics, Karl Barth converses with the great theologians of post-reformation orthodoxy, quoting from works in his private collection. When Barth became Honorary Professor of Reformed Theology at the University of GAttingen in 1921, his knowledge of the Reformed tradition was practically non-existent; he quickly amassed his collection of ancient copies in order to acquire a thorough knowledge of orthodoxy. In Karl Barth and Post-Reformation Orthodoxy, Rinse H. Reeling Brouwer identifies and discusses the sources of Barth's conversations and analyses Barth's use and (mis)understandings of them. Each chapter focuses on one of the topics in Christian Dogmatics, with the last chapter exploring the way in which Barth's role as a reader of the 19th-century writer of a textbook on Reformed Dogmatics Heinrich Heppe influenced the ultimate shaping of Church Dogmatics. Reeling Brouwer offers a major contribution to Barth scholarship and an important resource for theologians as well as historians focusing on the post-reformation protestant theology.

Throughout his magnum opus, Church Dogmatics, Karl Barth converses with the great theologians of post-reformation orthodoxy, quoting from works in his private collection. When Barth became Honorary Professor of Reformed Theology at the University of GAttingen in 1921, his knowledge of the Reformed tradition was practically non-existent; he quickly amassed his collection of ancient copies in order to acquire a thorough knowledge of orthodoxy. In Karl Barth and Post-Reformation Orthodoxy, Rinse H. Reeling Brouwer identifies and discusses the sources of Barth's conversations and analyses Barth's use and (mis)understandings of them. Each chapter focuses on one of the topics in Christian Dogmatics, with the last chapter exploring the way in which Barth's role as a reader of the 19th-century writer of a textbook on Reformed Dogmatics Heinrich Heppe influenced the ultimate shaping of Church Dogmatics. Reeling Brouwer offers a major contribution to Barth scholarship and an important resource for theologians as well as historians focusing on the post-reformation protestant theology.

In this illuminating collection of essays, 15 scholars, with perspectives as diverse as their countries of origin, read Karl Barth's theology against the backdrop of the complex and evolving relationships between the church, society and the academy. The time and context in and for which Barth wrote is no longer our own. Our today is pregnant with a perplexing mixture of near cultural diversity and distant globalized homogeneity. Far from a mere hagiographical retelling, critical attention to the ongoing reception and creative transformation of Barth's theology within this today characterizes the collection. This includes a renewed appreciation for Barth's methodology and the specifically theological manner in which it inspires new conversations across disciplinary boundaries. Though diverse in voice, read together, the texts present a vision of how dogmatic theology can both appreciate Barth's basic insights and do constructive theology "after Barth."

Having completed three collections of work, Dutch theologian Frans H Breukelman left the bulk of his work to be published by a later generation of students. Rinse H Reeling Brouwer takes up the task, giving us "The Structure of Sacred Doctrine in Calvin's Theology". Brouwer brings to life Breukelman's extensive study of Calvin's doctrine from the first form of his Institutes - the 1536 basic catechism - through all its incarnations to the 1559 final, definitive form, his explanation of the Creed. Finally, Brouwer focuses on Breukelman's intriguing belief that the entire Reformed doctrinal tradition has proceeded along the line of only one of the possibilities in the structure of Calvin's theology.