How to Read Karl Barth

Here I discuss how I recommend reading Karl Barth, including a guide to his "Church Dogmatics," and a brief look at some of the secondary literature on him.
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Books by Barth:
"Dogmatics in Outline" - amzn.to/3qdji56
"Evangelical Theology: An Introduction" - amzn.to/3uTP36N
"Church Dogmatics" - amzn.to/3e9WmBg
CD IV/1 - amzn.to/3bixoy0
CD II/1 - amzn.to/2PwTgwZ
"Epistle to the Romans" - amzn.to/3rkU71Z
"Deliverance to the Captives" - amzn.to/3sUGx5w
"Barth in Conversation" (3 Vols) - amzn.to/3qdkkOw
(Not mentioned in the video):
"The Humanity of God" - amzn.to/3ecOpLU
"The Faith of the Church" - amzn.to/38dthRH
"Christ and Adam" - amzn.to/2PC9qW3
Books on Barth:
Eberhard Busch: "Karl Barth" - amzn.to/3sQWvO9
T. F. Torrance: "Karl Barth" - amzn.to/3sJ6F3s
George Hunsinger: "How to Read Karl Barth" - amzn.to/2PwVk8d
Bruce McCormack: "Barth's Critically Realistic Dialectical Theology" - amzn.to/3c87zjr
Geoffrey Bromiley: "Introduction to Karl Barth" - amzn.to/3rjadZV
"Cambridge Companion to Karl Barth" - amzn.to/3uTJnJX
Eberhard Jüngel: "God's Being is In Becoming" - amzn.to/3uZjf0y
(Not mentioned in the video):
George Hunsinger: "Karl Barth and Radical Politics" - amzn.to/2O301X2
Bruce McCormack: "Orthodox and Modern" - amzn.to/3rjKHDD
My book on Barth:
"Karl Barth in Plain English" - amzn.to/2MSt2US
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[@-adottube8674]

I real appreciate your work here in this video and on your book. I will give your book a try. Appreciate it.

[@emergenscenery]

Stephen, I'm so grateful for these recent videos from you! Well-done! You do well with this video medium. Hoping your continue to develop videos around Barthian content. Thanks again. :)

[@StephenDMorrison]

Thanks for watching, Justin, and for your kind words!

[@GlobeHackers]

Much appreciated. It's time to dive into church dogmatic.

[@riverjao]

Excellent video Stephen! Thanks 👍 I’m currently reading through some of The Doctrine of God II.1. Some incredible stuff for sure!

[@StephenDMorrison]

Thanks, Jordan! Happy reading! II/1 is one of my favorite volumes.

[@dan.thomas]

Excellent stuff! Thank you. I didn't hear you mention the new Wiley-Blackwell Companion. Any thoughts on that?

[@StephenDMorrison]

Hi Dan, thanks for watching! I haven't read it yet, but from what I've seen, it seems like a helpful collection. I trust George Hunsinger as the editor so I'm sure it's well done. The price tag is hard to stomach and for scholars, it may be worth it, but for beginners to Barth is might be a bit much! So just depends on your interest in his work.

[@thehappyheretic2136]

did he write anything on escatology?

[@StephenDMorrison]

Early on, yes. But he did not live to finish volume five of Church Dogmatics, which would have been his most complete work on eschatology. Romans and especially the Göttingen Dogmatics offer an early focus on eschatology. There are also some eschatological sections in CD that might give us a clue into what he might have written. The Postbarthian did a blog on these: postbarthian.com/2016/12/05/four-eschatological-paragraphs-karl-barths-church-dogmatics/.