This significant book shows why Karl Barth's theology has swept beyond his native Germany and affected the thinking of two continents. It is a companion book to "Come Holy Spirit", published by Round Table Press in 1933.
Widely known for many years for his fearless and prophetic thinking, Barth has not become world famous for his staunch defense of the Christian faith and for his leadership of the German clergy against Nazi paganism. For this the Nazis removed him from the faculty of Bonn University in Germany. He is now in exile.
In "God's Search for Man", Karl Barth presents his unique and fundamental conception of man's relationship to God and God's relationship to man. Here he discusses, in terms as plain as they are powerful, the tenets of his faith.
Karl Barth was a Swiss Reformed theologian whom critics hold to be among the most important Christian thinkers of the 20th century.
Beginning with his experience as a pastor, he rejected his training in the predominant liberal theology typical of 19th-century Protestantism. Instead he embarked on a new theological path initially called dialectical theology, due to its stress on the paradoxical nature of divine truth (e.g., God's relationship to humanity embodies both grace and judgment). Other critics have referred to Barth as the father of neo-orthodoxy -- a term emphatically rejected by Barth himself. The most accurate description of his work might be "a theology of the Word." Barth's theological thought emphasized the sovereignty of God, particularly through his innovative doctrine of election.
Barth tries to recover the Doctrine of the Trinity in theology from its putative loss in liberalism. His argument follows from the idea that God is the object of God's own self-knowledge, and revelation in the Bible means the self-unveiling to humanity of the God who cannot be discovered by humanity simply through its own efforts.
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