Deliverance to the Captives by Karl Barth

Deliverance to the Captives by Karl Barth

This book takes us behind prison bars--to hear powerful, simple, direct sermons by the man widely known as the twentieth century's most influential theologian. Originally delivered to inmates of the prison in Basel, Switzerland, these sermons shine with Karl Barth's thought and exaltation of the living Christ. Including sermons on the great feasts of the Christian year such as Christmas and Easter, Deliverance to the Captives offers new hope powerfully phrased, and a wide entry into the thought of a supreme theologian. It has been Barth's work to turn the Christian field with a resharpened plow. These sermons' dominant note is of hope, of joy in the Lord, of an ardor that can assert, concerning faith, that 'no human being has ever prayed for this in vain.' -- John Updike, The New Yorker Karl Barth (1886-1968), the Swiss Reformed professor and pastor, was once described by Pope Pius XI as the most important theologian since Thomas Aquinas. As principal author of 'The Barmen Declaration', he was the intellectual leader of the German Confessing Church - the Protestant group that resisted the Third Reich. Barth's teaching career spanned nearly five decades. Removed from his post at Bonn by the Nazis in late 1934, Barth moved to Basel where he taught until 1962. Among Barth's many books, sermons, and essays are 'The Epistle to the Romans', 'Humanity of God', 'Evangelical Theology', and 'Church Dogmatics'.

Karl Barth (1886-1968) studierte Theologie in Bern, Berlin, Tubingen, Marburg und war von 1909 bis 1921 Pfarrer in Genf und Safenwil. Mit seiner Auslegung des Romerbriefes (1919, 1922) begann eine neue Epoche der evangelischen Theologie. Dieses radikale Buch trug ihm einen Ruf als Honorarprofessor nach Gottingen ein, spater wurde er Ordinarius in Munster und Bonn. Er war Mitherausgeber von 'Zwischen den Zeiten' (1923-1933), der Zeitschrift der 'Dialektischen Theologie'. Karl Barth war der Autor der 'Barmer Theologischen Erklarung' und Kopf des Widerstands gegen die 'Gleichschaltung' der Kirchen durch den Nationalsozialismus. 1935 wurde Barth von der Bonner Universitat wegen Verweigerung des bedingungslosen Fuhrereids entlassen. Er bekam sofort eine Professur in Basel, blieb aber mit der Bekennenden Kirche in enger Verbindung. Sein Hauptwerk, 'Die Kirchliche Dogmatik', ist die bedeutendste systematisch-theologische Leistung des 20. Jahrhunderts. Hinrich Stoevesandt, Dr. theol. Dr. Dr. h.c., Jahrgang 1931, war von 1971 bis 1997 Leiter des Karl Barth-Archivs in Basel und Herausgeber der Gesamtausgabe. Michael Trowitzsch, Dr. theol., Jahrgang 1945, war von 1983 bis 1993 in Munster/Westfalen und von 1993 bis 2010 in Jena Professor fur Systematische Theologie.

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ISBN 13	9781608999521
ISBN 10	1608999521
Title	Deliverance to the Captives
Author	Karl Barth
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Year published	2010-11-01
Number of pages	160
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