{"product_id":"karl-barths-critically-realistic-dialectical-theology","title":"Karl Barth's Critically Realistic Dialectical Theology","description":"\u003cp\u003e`McCormack is master of this voluminous material.  He is scrupulously at home in the intricate, dramatic background of Swiss socialist politics ...The result is a masterly study, often as compelling as its theme.' George Steiner, Times Literary Supplement  `This meticulous and definitive study ... supersedes most previous interpretations.' Colin Gunton, Theological Book Review\n\u003cbr\u003e `it should quickly attain classic status.  It is an exceptionally fine and erudite piece of work....The results of this painstaking attention to detail are truly ground-breaking.  This is a major intellectual achievement, an\n\u003cbr\u003einterpretative act of great courage, and Barth studies will never look the same.' Graham Ward, Expository Times   This book is a new, major intellectual biography of perhaps the most influential theologian of the twentieth century, Karl Barth.  It offers the first full-scale revision of the well-known theologian Hans Urs Balthasar's seminal interpretation of Barth, which was first published in 1951. Drawing on a wealth of material, much of it\n\u003cbr\u003eunpublished during Barth's lifetime, as well as a thorough acquaintance with the best of recent German scholarship, Professor McCormack demonstrates that the fundamental decision which would control the whole of Barth's\n\u003cbr\u003edevelopment - the turn to a new, critically realistic form of theological objectivism - was already made during the years in which Barth was at work on his first commentary on Romans. Professor McCormack further argues that the most significant subsequent decisions - both material and methodological - were made in Barth's Gottingen Dogmatics of 1924\/5, and not later in the 1931 book on Anselm, as has often been alleged.  Finally, he seeks to show that von Balthasar's\n\u003cbr\u003edescription of a turn from dialectic to analogy, which provided the foundation for the neo-orthodox reading of Barth in the English-speaking world, fails to take seriously enough the extent to which dialectic remained a\n\u003cbr\u003econstitutive feature of Barth's outlook in the Church Dogmatics. This unique and important work provides not simply a fresh interpretation of Barth's development, but also a new paradigm for understanding the whole of Barth's theology.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43934971461870,"sku":"9780198269564","price":257.54,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780198269564.jpg?v=1706228921","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/karl-barths-critically-realistic-dialectical-theology","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}