Topic 9: Karl Barth for Preachers

9. KARL BARTH FOR PREACHERS

Seminar Readings

Barth, Karl. “The Necessity of Dogmatic Prolegomena.” In Church Dogmatics, edited by G. W. Bromiley and T. F. Torrance, Vol. I, The Doctrine of the Word of God, Part 1, § 2, section 1, pp. 25–36. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1975. [1932]

——— Homiletics. Translated by Geoffrey W. Bromiley and Donald E. Daniels. Louisville, KY: Westminster/J. Knox, 1991. Translation of Homiletik. 136 pp. [1932–1933]

——— The Faith of the Church; A Commentary on the Apostles’ Creed According to Calvin’s Catechism. Edited by Jean-Louis Leuba. Translated by Gabriel Vahanian. New York: Meridian Books, 1958. Reprint, Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2006. 188 pp. Translation of La confession de foi de l’Église. 188 pp. [1940–1943]

——— Learning Jesus Christ through the Heidelberg Catechism. Translated by Shirley C. Guthrie, Jr. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1964, 1981. Translation of two works: Die christliche Lehre nach dem Heidelberger Katechismus and Einführung in den Heidelberger Katechismus. Reprint. Originally published: The Heidelberg Catechism for Today. Richmond: John Knox, 1964. 141 pp. [1948, 1960]

——— Deliverance to the Captives. Translated by Marguerite Wieser. New York: Harper, 1961. Reprint, Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2010. 160 pp. [1954–1959]

——— Evangelical Theology: An Introduction. Translated by Grover Foley. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. xv + 206 pp. [1962]

Supplementary Readings

Barth, Karl. Call for God: New Sermons from Basel Prison. Translated by A. T. Mackay. New York: Harper and Row, 1967. New edition, London: SCM, 2012. 125 pp. [1959–1964]

——— The Word of God and Theology. Translated by Amy Marga. New York: T. & T. Clark, 2011. xiii + 242 pp. See especially Chapter 2, “The New World in the Bible,” [1917] pp. 15–29, Chapter 5, “The Need and Promise of Christian Proclamation,” [1922] pp. 101–129, and Chapter 7, “The Word of God as the Task of Theology,” [1922] pp. 171–198.

——— Church Dogmatics Index Volume: With Aids for the Preacher. Editors, G. W. Bromiley and T. F. Torrance. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1977. Translation of Die kirchliche Dogmatik Registerband. 552 pp. [1970]

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Busch, Eberhard. The Great Passion: An Introduction to Karl Barth’s Theology. Translated by Geoffrey W. Bromiley, edited and annotated by Darrel L. Guder and Judith J. Guder. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2004, reprint 2010. x + 302 pp.

Hancock, Angela Dienhart. Karl Barth’s Emergency Homiletic, 1932–1933: A Summons to Prophetic Witness at the Dawn of the Third Reich. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2013. xvi + 356 pp.

Hartwell, Herbert. The Theology of Karl Barth: An Introduction. London: G. Duckworth; Philadelphia: Westminster, 1964. xiv + 201 pp. This is a good introduction.

Hunsinger, George. How to Read Karl Barth: The Shape of His Theology. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. xv + 298 pp. This is a more advanced text.

Jüngel, Eberhard. Karl Barth: A Theological Legacy, translated by Garrett E. Paul. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1986. See especially Chapter 4, “The Royal Man: A Christological Reflection on Human Dignity in Barth’s Theology.” pp. 127–138.

McCormack, Bruce L. Karl Barth’s Critically Realistic Dialectical Theology: Its Genesis and Development 1909–1936. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. xx + 499 pp. Revision and expansion of the author’s doctoral thesis, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1989.

revised May 2, 2015

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