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Introduction to the Theology of Karl Barth

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Episode · 26 min · March 7, 2008

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Jim and Camden discuss the 20th century theologian Karl Barth and the main themes of his influential theology. Panel Members Jim Cassidy Camden Bucey Bibliography Hunsinger, George. How to read Karl Barth : the shape of his theology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. McCormack, Bruce. Karl Barth’s critically

realistic dialectical theology its genesis and development, 1909-1936. Oxford: Clarendon, 1997. Van Til, Cornelius. Christianity and Barthianism. P & R Publishing, 2004. Van Til, Cornelius. The new modernism an appraisal of the theology of Barth and Brunner, Philadelphia Pa.: Presbyterian and Reformed Pub. Co., 1946. Webster, John. The Cambridge Companion to Karl Barth. Cambridge University Press, 2000. Participants: Camden Bucey, Jim Cassidy

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