Dogmatics in Outline Author:Karl Barth, G. T. Thompson (Translator) Barth stands before us as the greatest theologian of the twentieth century, yet the massive corpus of work which he left behind, the multi-volume Church Dogmatics, can seem daunting and formidable to readers today. Fortunately his Dogmatics in Outline, first published in English in 1949, contains in brilliantly concentrated form even in... more » shorthand, the essential tenets of his thinking. Built around the assertions made in the Apostles Creed the book consists of a series of reflections on the foundation stones of Christian doctrine.
Because Dogmatics in Outline derives from very particular circumstances namely the lectures Barth gave in war-shattered Germany in 1946, it has an urgency and a compassion which lend the text a powerful simplicity. Despite its brevity the book makes a tremendous impact.« less