A textbook with annotated excerpts from Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics and additional essays on Barth's life and work and his place in modern theology.

This is a textbook with annotated excerpts from Karl Barth's "Church Dogmatics" and additional essays on Barth's life and work and his place in modern theology. This reader from Karl Barth's multi-volume "Church Dogmatics" offers an introduction to the whole work, key readings in reasonable portions with introductions and provides helpful hints at secondary material. This is an ideal textbook for all beginners studying the work of one of the most important theologians of the last century.

"[I]t's with relief that we turn to this judicious selection of major passages accompanied by perceptive introductions and notes, to delve into one of the great modern thinkers." - The Religious Book Club