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Karl Barth in a nutshell
Marty Folsom does what no previous scholar has done: make Church Dogmatics available to all.
Back to basics with a Dutch Nazi resistor
K. H. Miskotte wrote a Karl Barth for Dummies in 1941. It offers a bracing challenge today.
Concretizing the word
Judicial originalism is biblical literalism’s younger cousin.
Take & Read: Theology
Five new books that address today’s theological challenges
What is the church’s true crisis of decline?
It’s probably not what you think.
Karl Barth’s affair with Charlotte von Kirschbaum wasn’t the only major conflict behind his theology
Christiane Tietz explores them all in the first full-length biography since Eberhard Busch’s in 1976.
Karl Barth’s wisdom for fathers (and mothers, and all children of God)
Before you had a human parent, you had a perfect one.
The audacity to preach the gospel
Will Willimon tells preachers to put aside sentimentality.
Karl Barth’s gift to the church
Kimlyn Bender has produced a reading guide to assist nonspecialists.
James Cone and the liberating spirit of blackness
In his final memoir, Cone’s testimony resounds.
A Ghanaian theologian considers demons
Are they real? and other questions in Esther Acolatse’s work.
The state killed Kelly Gissendaner despite the evidence of a changed life. This points to a desire for retribution rather than reformation.
I don’t know what a perfect first-century family looked like, but I’m certain that Joseph and Mary didn’t qualify.
Nicholas Healy's central methodological criticism of Stanley Hauerwas is that he "is concerned with the logic of coming to believe and the logic of Christian living rather more than the logic of belief."
reviewed by Michael G. Cartwright
In this long, freewheeling conversation with the Heidelberg Catechism, Eberhard Busch sometimes uses the document for leverage against distortions in the contemporary church, and sometimes challenges its assumptions.
reviewed by Amy Plantinga Pauw
Alistair McGrath offers an intellectual history of Emil Brunner's life and thought—and pleads for a recovery of his theology.
reviewed by I. John Hesselink
Stanley Hauerwas’s book is about learning how to die and training how to be human. Broadly speaking, it is a book about time and purpose—or, better said, the purpose of time.
reviewed by Clay Thomas
Theo Hobson’s ambitious book traces the historical emergence and fate of liberal theology in the modern period. He defends the “liberal state” and the way good liberal Christianity is allied with it.
reviewed by Walter Brueggemann