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Karl Barth's Critically Realistic Dialectical Theology: Its Genesis and Development 1909-1936
Karl Barth's Critically Realistic Dialectical Theology Its Genesis and Development 19091936 Author:Bruce L. McCormack This book is a major intellectual biography of perhaps the most influential theologian of the twentieth century, Karl Barth. McCormack offers the first full-scale revision of the well-known theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar's seminal interpretation of Barth, which was first published in 1951. Drawing on a wealth of material, much of it unpublish... more »ed during Barth's lifetime, as well as a thorough acquaintance with the best of recent German scholarship, McCormack demonstrates that the fundamental decision that would control the whole of Barth's development--the turn to a new, critically realistic form of theological "objectivism"--was already made during the years in which Barth was at work on his first commentary on Romans.« less