The Epistle to the Romans

by Karl Barth

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

, 1968

Overview

This volume provides a much-needed English translation of the sixth edition of what is considered the fundamental text for fully understanding Barthianism. Barth—who remains a powerful influence on European and American theology—argues that the modern Christian preacher and theologian face the same basic problems that confronted Paul. Assessing the whole Protestant argument in relation to modern attitudes and problems, he focuses on topics such as Biblical exegesis; the interrelationship between theology, the Church, and religious experience; the relevance of the truth of the Bible to culture; and what preachers should preach.

Key Features

• Provides an English translation of what is considered the fundamental text for fully understanding Barthianism
• Examines the relevance of the truth of the Bible to culture and what preachers should preach
• Focuses on topics such as Biblical exegesis, the interrelationship between theology, the Church, and religious experience

Contents

Top Highlights

“To him that is not sufficiently mature to accept a contradiction and to rest in it, it becomes a scandal—to him that is unable to escape the necessity of contradiction, it becomes a matter for faith. Faith is awe in the presence of the divine incognito; it is the love of God that is aware of the qualitative distinction between God and man and God and the world; it is the affirmation of resurrection as the turning-point of the world; and therefore it is the affirmation of the divine ‘No’ in Christ, of the shattering halt in the presence of God.” (Page 39)

“But the activity of the community is related to the Gospel only in so far as it is no more than a crater formed by the explosion of a shell and seeks to be no more than a void in which the Gospel reveals itself.” (Page 36)

“The Gospel requires—faith. Only for those who believe is it the power of God unto salvation. It can therefore be neither directly communicated nor directly apprehended.” (Page 38)

“All human achievements are no more than prolegomena; and this is especially the case in the field of theology” (Pages 2–3)

“This is beginning, theme, and end, of the Epistle to the Romans” (Page 32)

Product Details

• Title: The Epistle to the Romans
• Author: Karl Barth
• Edition: Sixth Edition
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Print Publication Date: 1968
• Logos Release Date: 2021
• Pages: 547
• Era: era:modern
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. N.T. Romans › Commentaries
• ISBNs: 9780195002942, 9780844664637, 0195002946, 0844664634
• Resource ID: LLS:EPROMANSKARLBARTH
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T23:42:06Z

About Karl Barth

Karl Barth (May 10, 1886–December 10, 1968) was a twentieth-century Swiss theologian in the Reformed tradition. A vigorous opponent of theological liberalism and modernism, he is sometimes called “the Father of Neo-Orthodoxy.”