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Karl Barth

Karl Barth: Spiritual Writings

by Ashley Cocksworth

Ashley Cocksworth is Senior Lecturer in Theology and Practice at the University of Roehampton. He is author of Karl Barth on Prayer (T&T Clark, 2015) and Prayer: A Guide for the Perplexed (Bloomsbury, 2018), and he is coeditor with John C. McDowell of The T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Prayer (Bloomsbury, 2021). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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and W. Travis McMaken

W. Travis McMaken is Professor of Religion and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri. He is author of The Sign of the Gospel: Toward an Evangelical Doctrine of Infant Baptism after Karl Barth (Fortress, 2013) and Our God Loves Justice: An Introduction to Helmut Gollwitzer (Fortress, 2017), and he is coeditor with David W. Congdon of Karl Barth in Conversation (Pickwick, 2014). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Paulist Press, 2022
Karl Barth
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For Karl Barth, all dogmatic work is spiritual. Thus, like Aquinas and other renowned theologians, Barth did not write an independent spiritual theology, but integrated spirituality into his dogmatic work. Nevertheless, specific texts within Barth’s corpus are dedicated to spiritual matters and they form the basis of the material in this volume. The selections draw widely from Barth’s commentary on Romans, Church Dogmatics, sermons, lectures, speeches, seminars, and his own prayer life. They illumine for researchers, students, and the general reader the distinctiveness of Barth’s theology of Christian spirituality and the important contribution he makes to the wider traditions of Christian spirituality. To augment the primary sources, this volume also contains an introductory essay that comments on the selection of texts, sets Barth in his historical context, charts the development of his thought, and indicates the significance of spirituality to his theology (including drawing out the distinctively christological shape of his spiritual theology). Each of the subsequent four sections will contain briefer introductions and a contextualizing introduction for each source.