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 ...

Time magazine’s April 20, 1962, cover story on Karl Barth announced that the great Swiss theologian would visit the United States for the first, and what turned out to be the only, time. Given Barth’s ...

“It is many years since I rode horseback through field and wood or performed modest soldierly duties,” wrote Switzerland’s famed, 73-year-old Protestant Theologian Karl Barth* recently in the ...

Christianity Today has depicted the recent movement of European theology as a retrogression from “springtime” to “wintertime” in Continental dogmatics. American evangelicals view with anxiety the ...

ON THE OCCASION of Arthur Schlesinger’s death, Ernest W. Lefever chose to belittle Karl Barth, the greatest Christian theologian of the last several centuries (“The Theologian and the Historian,” ...

One of the most truly remarkable events in intellectual history in recent times is Jurgen Habermas’ “religious turn” in the last two decades. Those of us writing about Habermas in the 1980s and 1990s ...

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