The morning of December 14 the blanket of clouds that had covered Switzerland for several weeks lifted at the nation’s northwest corner, and a clear winter sun shone down on Basel. And there the ...

Surely no great Christian theologian exceeds Karl Barth in devotion to the church and its pastors. Kimlyn Bender shares a remark from late in Barth’s life: “My whole theology, you see, is ...

Kornelis Miskotte once said that Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics was as tough of a read as Moby-Dick. This may be unfair to Moby-Dick. I’ve made repeated attempts to infect seminarians with my love of ...

Of many theologians it is said that their passing marks the end of an epoch. But what is said hyperbolically of others is more literally true of the Swiss theologian, Karl Barth, whose death at the ...