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Karl Barth: his life from letters and autobiographical texts

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Eberhard Busch who became Karl Barth's assistant in 1965 until the day he died in 1968 wrote this authoritative and fascinating biography of Barth's rich life (1886-1968) in 1975. Busch also has a highly acclaimed survey of Barth's theology: The Great Passion: An Introduction to Karl Barth's Theology. Every reader of Barth should read some work by Barth himself (one can begin anywhere but I would recommend the brief and readable God in Action: Theological Addresses or the early book that made him famous The Epistle to the Romans) and then dive into this biography. There is no better way to understand Barth then to read Busch's masterly crafted account of Barth's life punctuated by Barth's own candid and self-deprecating comments. Of course those already intrigued with Barth will most easily devour the biography but there is also something fascinating about learning how the person who wrote the most pages about God in the 20th century lived his own life. His magnum opus Church Dogmatics (31 vols) is about 8,000 pages. This 500-page biography flies by in comparison to Barth's own deliberate style.
Barth had a rich life--here are just a few tidbits to whet your appetite. He felt compelled to speak out about issues that concerned him--against natural theology, Nazism, the demonizing communism, nuclear weaponry, and infant baptism. But he also depended on friendships and interaction with others..

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922 BUS k

Publisher

Philadelphia : Fortress Press., 1976

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xvii,269p.; 23 cm.

Language

English

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0-8006-0485-7

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922

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BIOGRAPHY - CHRISTIANS

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