My already passionate commitment to the task of preaching was further enhanced when as a young seminarian I was exposed to the theology of Karl Barth. According to Kurt Anders Richardson, "Barth ...

Of many theologians it is said that their passing marks the end of an epoch. But what is said hyperbolically of others is more literally true of the Swiss theologian, Karl Barth, whose death at the ...

Karl Barth’s well-known story concerns his move out of liberal theology—which he had learned from his teachers Adolf von Harnack and Wilhelm Herrmann—into his own formulation of a dialectical theology ...

Karl Barth’s theology grew out of the task of preaching, and he always kept that task in view. In a radio interview not long before his death, he noted, “My whole theology, you see, is fundamentally a ...

“It is many years since I rode horseback through field and wood or performed modest soldierly duties,” wrote Switzerland’s famed, 73-year-old Protestant Theologian Karl Barth* recently in the ...