By Karl Barth,Colin E. Gunton

ISBN-10: 0802860788

ISBN-13: 9780802860781

ISBN-10: 0817005722

ISBN-13: 9780817005726

Introduction by way of Colin E. Gunton

Interest in Karl Barth is working at unparalleled degrees within the English-speaking international, and it's excessive time that his very good survey of formative eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Protestant thinkers be made on hand back to theological scholars and normal readers.

Featuring an intensive creation by way of Colin E. Gunton that recontextualizes and reintroduces Barth's paintings for a brand new new release, this publication presents an excellent overview of the shapers of contemporary Protestant proposal and perform. Barth deals insightful readings of all of the most important figures of the trendy interval -- Rousseau, Lessing, Kant, Hegel, Schleiermacher, Feuerbach, Ritschl, and others -- in addition to a number of lesser-known thinkers. additionally incorporated listed here are Barth's preface to the unique 1946 German version and a translation of his hard-to-find essay "On the duty of a background of contemporary Protestant Theology."

In addition to supplying perception into a few of the church's seminal theologians, this quantity deals a superb examine Barth himself. In shooting Barth's own perspectives on doctrine, the church, and highbrow heritage, the ebook additionally presents precious heritage analyzing for these learning Barth's personal theology.

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