Karl Barth's Critically Realistic Dialectical Theology Its Genesis and Development 1909-1936

"It is the genesis, the inward chronicle of Barth's develoment from 1909 to 1936--where 'development' is of itself a problematic concept in theology--which Bruce L. McCormack analyses. As he is the first to acknowledge, the secondary literature has become mountainous....McCormack is master of this voluminous material. He is scrupulously at home in the intricate dramatic background of Swiss socialist politics, of German social-economic affairs in torment and the history and variousness of the German-Protestant theologies in which Barth grew up. Principally, McCormack, has patient insight (Hegel's famous 'patience of the concept') into the interplay of intent and accident, of continuity and abruptness, of private and public circumstance which generate a style of argument. The result is a masterful study, often as compelling as its theme."McCormack, Bruce L. is the author of 'Karl Barth's Critically Realistic Dialectical Theology Its Genesis and Development 1909-1936' with ISBN 9780198269564 and ISBN 0198269560.