ISBN How to Read Karl Barth ( The Shape of His Theology ) 320 pages English

This perceptive study of the Protestant theologian Karl Barth decodes the most cryptic and elusive patterns of Barth's dialectic. Hunsinger here advances a new and authoritative interpretation of barth's mature theology and places Barth's work in relation to contemporary discussions of truth justified belief double agency and religious pluralism. Offering a fresh reading of the Church Dogmatics Hunsinger uncovers a series of thought-forms that pervade and underlie Barth's work. He abandons the attempt to find one definite `key' or `central' concept in Barth's massive 10000 page opus and instead presents a sophisticated array of motifs that serve as a guide to understanding the many facets of Barth's thought. How to Read Karl Barth offers a powerful account of the coherence of that multi-volumed work as a whole. Barth's thought