Karl Barth : his life from letters and autobiographical texts /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English German |
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Grand Rapids, Mich. :
W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.,
1994
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| Edition: | 1st paperback ed |
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Table of Contents:
- 'Karli' : Childhood, 1886-1904. Basle - his family's city ; Early childhood in Berne ; 'Along to school the children go...' ; Holidays ; Fighter and poet ; Confirmation
- Theological student : at university and as an assistant pastor, 1904-1911. The first semesters in Berne ; Harnack's pupil ; Herrmann's pupil ; Assistant pastor in Geneva
- Comrade pastor : the years in the parish of Safenwill, 1911-1921. The pastor... ; ...and comrade ; Thurneysen and other friends ; The outbreak of the First World War ; Meeting with Christoph Blumhardt ; The first edition of Romans ; The Tambach lecture and its consequences ; The second edition of Romans
- Between the times : professor of theology in Göttingen and Münster, 1921-1930. Initiation into teaching ; Companions ; 'Dialectical theology' ; Barth's first Dogmatics ; Münster ; 'Doctrine of the Word of God' ; Encounter with Catholicism ; The situation at the end of the 1920s
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- 'The Last Steps that We Can Still Take' : the years of retirement, 1962-1968. Travel to the USA ; Conversations ; 'Not completely finished' ; Ad limina apostolorum ; The unfinished Dogmatics ; 'In a narrow space' ; 'The last word - a name'
- The Barth family tree
- Maps. Berne ; Basle ; The Aargau region ; Switzerland ; Germany
- Chronological list of Barth's major works
- Between East and West : the years from 1946 and 1955 in Pilgerstrasse 25, Basle. The two guest semesters in Bonn ; Teaching and research 1947-1948 ; 'The Christian Community in the Midst of Political Change' ; The Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Amsterdam ; Teaching and research 1949-1951 ; Further work on the Church Dogmatics ; The Doctrine of Reconciliation ; Between the firing lines ; Demythologizing? ; 'Exaltations of man' ; Preparations for the World Council of Churches Assembly at Evanston ; 'The Gift of Freedom'
- Joyful Partisan of the good God : the years from 1955 to 1962 in Bruderholzallee 26, Basle. 1956 - year of celebrations ; 'The Humanity of God' ; 'We are concerned with life' ; 'Not to become tired but to go on and on...' ; The category of 'answer' ; '...to sigh and to hope' ; Swan song
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- Theological existence today : the years at Bonn, 1930-1935. The chair at Bonn ; Pupil of Anselm of Canterbury ; Church Dogmatics ; Before the storm ; 'As though nothing had happened' ; For the freedom of the gospel ; Confessing Church ; Barmen ; No! ; The end of the Confessing Church? ; The end of teaching in Bonn
- A Swiss voice : the years from 1935 to 1946 in St Albanring, Basle. Return to Switzerland ; Continuation of the church struggle ; Theological work 1936-1938 ; 'Political service' ; In the shadow of the Second World War ; Resistance! ; God's good creation ; 'I am your friend'
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