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Dogmatics in Outline

by Karl Barth

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Karl Barth’s concise engagement with the Apostles’ Creed

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Karl Barth’s concise engagement with the Apostles’ Creed

Originally drawn from lectures delivered in Germany in 1946, Dogmatics in Outline condenses Karl Barth’s theological thought into a short sequence of reflections organized around the Apostles’ Creed. The book takes the creed’s affirmations as entry points for considering core elements of Christian doctrine, offering a compact alternative to the far larger scope of Barth’s Church Dogmatics. Its historical origin in postwar Germany is central to the volume’s context: these are lectures shaped by a moment of national devastation and theological questioning. At 160 pages, it presents Barth’s dogmatic concerns in a focused, creed-centered form.

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  • Readers seeking an accessible entry point to Karl Barth’s theology
  • Students of Christian doctrine and twentieth-century theology
  • Those interested in theological writing from postwar Germany

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Apostles’ CreedChristian doctrineDogmaticsPostwar GermanyKarl Barth’s theology

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Book overview

Barth stands before us as the greatest theologian of the twentieth century, yet the massive corpus of work which he left behind, the multi volume Church Dogmatics, can seem daunting and formidable to readers today. Fortunately his Dogmatics in Outline first published in English in 1949, contains in brilliantly concentrated form even in shorthand, the essential tenets of his thinking. Built around the assertions made in the Apostles Creed the book consists of a series of reflections on the foundation stones of Christian doctrine. Because Dogmatics in Outline derives from very particular circumstances namely the lectures Barth gave in war-shattered Germany in 1946, it has an urgency and a compassion which lend the text a powerful simplicity. Despite its brevity the book makes a tremendous impact, which in this new edition will now be felt by a fresh generation of readers.
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