Karl Barth : a life in conflict / Christiane Tietz ; translated by Victoria J. Barnett.

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"From the beginning of his career, Swiss theologian Karl Barth (1886-1968) was often in conflict with the spirit of his times. While during the First World War German poets and philosophers became intoxicated by the experience of community and transcendence, Barth fought against all attempts to loca...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Karl Barth. English
Main Author: Tietz, Christiane, 1967- (Author)
Other Authors: Barnett, Victoria, 1950- (Translator)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
German
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Barth, Karl, > 1886-1968.
Theologians > Switzerland > Biography.
Theologians > Germany > Biography.
Théologiens > Suisse > Biographies.
Théologiens > Allemagne > Biographies.
Theologians.
Germany.
Switzerland.
Biographies.
Genre:
Biography.
Biographies.
Physical Description:xvii, 448 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • "I belong to Basel": ancestors and childhood, 1886-1904
  • "This obscure desire toward a better understanding": studies, 1904-9
  • "Stumbling up the steps to Calvin's pulpit": Geneva, 1909-11
  • "The red pastor": Safenwil, 1911-21
  • "A book for those who were also concerned": the first Epistle to the Romans, 1919
  • "To always work somewhat faster": Göttingen, 1921-5
  • "Not a stone left standing": the second Epistle to the Romans, 1922
  • "The need for thinking futher": Münster, 1925-30
  • A troubled "ménage à trois": Charlotte von Kirschbaum
  • "A Swissman in the middle of Germany": Bonn, 1930-5
  • "We who can still speak": Basel, 1935-45
  • "In political respects a dubious will-o'-the-wisp": Basel, 1945-62
  • "The white whale": Church Dogmatics
  • "All things considered, a little tired": the final years, Basel, 1962-8
  • Epilogue.