1: "I Belong To Basel": 1886-1904
Guildmaster, Pastors and Scholars: Barth's Ancestors
A Strict Love for Truth and Christian Discipline: His Parents
"A Great Great Joy": Childhood and Youth
2: "This Obscure Desire toward a Better Understanding":
1904-1909
The Decision to Study Theology
Student in Bern
Wearing the Colors and Noncombative: In the Zofingia
Association
"Very Diligent and Quite Capable": Student in Berlin
Once More in Bern and Then Tübingen
Finally in Marburg
His Work for Die Christliche Welt
3: "Stumbling Up the Steps to Calvin's Pulpit": 1909-1911
Vicar in Geneva
Quite Demanding: The First Confirmation Instruction
Theologian in the Congregation
"In Such a Dreadfully Pious Environment"
A Daughter from a Good Home: The Engagement to Nelly Hoffmann
Farewell to Geneva
4: "The Red Pastor": Safenwil, 1911-1921
"This System of Employment Must Fall": Workers and Socialists
A Theological Friendship: Eduard Thurneysen
"The WorldWithout Gods": The First World War
"An Open House": Family Life
5: "A Book for Those Who Were Also Concerned": The First Epistle to
the Romans, 1919
Human Religion and the Divine Word
"Like a Bomb on the Playground of the Theologians"
"Without Windows to the Kingdom of Heaven": The Tambach Lecture
6: "To Always Work Somewhat Faster": Göttingen 1921-1925
From Swiss Pastor to German Professor
"Unavoidable Nonsense of the Academic Business"
"Almost Like a Buddy": Barth with His Students
"Lively Combat": Emanuel Hirsch and Other Colleagues
"Stranger from a Neutral Place": Karl Barth and the Germans
7: "Not a Stone Left Standing": The Second Version of the Epistle
to the Romans, 1922
A Critical Turn
The new version of the Epistle to the Romans
Critics and Admirers
What is Dialectical Theology?
Dialectical Traveling Companions: Brunner, Bultmann, Gogarten
Fifteen Questions and Sixteen Answers: The Controversy with
Harnack
8: "The Need for Thinking Further": Münster 1925-1930
A Call and a Momentous Encounter
Received with Joy, Departing in Discord
In the Tunnel of the Semester
Return to Bern?
"The Church, the Church, the Church": Encounters with
Catholicism
Riding, House Music and Travel
9: A Troubled 'Ménage à Trois': Charlotte von Kirschbaum
A Long-Guarded Secret
"I Never Knew That There Could Be Something Like This"
"A Certain Double Life"
Three Under One Roof
10: "A Swissman in the Middle of Germany": Bonn 1930-1935
Working on Theology
The Humanity of God
First Conflicts with German Nationalists: the Case of Günther
Dehn
Now's the Time for the Social Democrat Party: 1933
Warnings to the Church and a Letter to Hitler
1933 as a Year of Crisis in the Barth Household
The Theological Dimension of Barth's Relationship to Charlotte von
Kirschbaum
Attacks on the Swissman
Against the "German greeting"
The Break with his Dialectical Travelling Companions
The Barmen Theological Declaration
Suspension, Ban on Public Speaking, Dismissal
11: "We Who Can Still Speak": Basel 1935-1945
Life Goes On: Professor in Basel
International Honors and Lack of Appreciation
Battle for the Confessing Church
Anti-Appeasement: The Call to the Czechs to Resist
The Political Responsibility of a Christian
Church Struggle and Refugee Aid
Ecumenical Silence at the Onset of the War
Family Intrigues and Grief
A Call for Military Resistance, and Swiss Censorship
A Friend of the Germans, Nonetheless
12: "In Political Respects a Dubious Will-o'-the-Wisp": Basel
1945-1962
War's End and the Declaration of Guilt
Back to Bonn and, Once Again, State and Church Issues
"God's Beloved Eastern Zone": Against Anti-Communism
A Pacifist after All? Protest against Rearmament and Nuclear
Weapons
Yes to Ecumenism, but without the Catholics
The Master with the Crumpled Tie
The Discovery of Optimism in Prison
Courage, Tempo, Purity, Peace: Confession to Mozart
Children, Grandchildren, and the Rejection of His Desired
Successor
13: "The White Whale": Church Dogmatics
"A Conceptual Helix": Barth's Monumental Work
The Threefold Form of the Word of God
God's Three Modes of Being
"God is" means "God loves"
Whom God Elects
What God Commands
Why God Wants the Creation
Nothingness and the Shadow Sides of Creation
The Threefold Office of Christ and the Three Forms of Sin
The Light Shines Where It Wishes
The Baptism of Water and of the Spirit
14: "All Things Considered, A Little Tired": The Final Years, Basel
1962-1968
"Fantastic": A Calvinist in the United States
"Rules for Older people in Relation to Younger"
"As If Deeply Veiled": Charlotte von Kirschbaum Must Move Out
"Separated Brothers": In Conversation with Rome
A Late Friendship with Carl Zuckmayer
The Uncompleted Mammoth Work
At the End of His Life Journey
Epilogue
Chronology
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
Christiane Tietz studied Mathematics and Protestant Theology in
Frankfurt/Main and Tübingen. She worked as assistant of Eberhard
Jüngel and did her PhD with him on Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Her PostDoc
thesis was on a Christian concept of self-acceptance. She was
awarded a Heisenberg Stipend by the German Research Foundation.
From 2008 until 2013 she worked as Full Professor for Systematic
Theology and Social Ethics at the University of Mainz/Germany.
Since
2013 she has been Full Professor for Systematic Theology at the
Institute of Hermeneutics and Philosophy of Religion at the
University of Zurich/Switzerland. She has been a visiting lecturer
or research scholar in
Cambridge, Chicago, Heidelberg, Jerusalem, New York, and Princeton.
She is a member of the editorial board of numerous journals and
book series, and a judge for the Karl Barth-Prize and a member of
the Advisory Board of the Karl Barth-Foundation, Basel.
Victoria J. Barnett (Translator) was Director of the Programs on
Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust at the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, from 2004 to 2019. She also served
as General Editor of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English Edition
from 2004 to 2014. She is the author of For the Soul of the People:
Protestant Protest under Hitler (Oxford University Press, 1992) and
Bystanders: Conscience and Complicity during the Holocaust
(Greenwood Press,
1999). She is the translator of several works, including Wolfgang
Gerlach, And the Witnesses were Silent and Christiane Tietz,
Theologian of Resistance: The Life and Thought of Dietrich
Bonhoeffer, and is the author of
numerous articles and book chapters.
This is a maginificent, engrossing lucid and comprehensive
treatment of the most important theologian of the modern era. Tietz
has given not only to Barth scholarship but also to the history of
theology in the twentieth century a great gift. We are in her debt.
She reminds us of Barth's abiding preoccupation with God, and
specifically with Jesus Christ who is "the event God's grace, a new
beginning between God and humanity that is grounded solely in God".
She also helps us undertsand something of the conflicts that this
preoccupation encouraged.
*Christopher R. J. Holmes, Pro Ecclesia *
Tietz's book presents us with a golden opportunity to get up to
speed on the current understanding of Barth, both the man and his
theology
*James J Cassidy, New Horizons in the Orthodox Presbyterian
Church*
Tietz's Barth biography is a book worthy of recommendation not only
for professional Barth researchers, but for everyone (even
non-theologians) interested in church history and in contemporary
history.
*Frank Jehle, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland,
International Journal of Systematic Theology*
Tietz's work fills a major scholarly lacuna and deserves wide
readership among pastors, teachers, students, and lay
believers.
*J. Scott Jackson, The Living Church*
... Tietz's primary achievement here is surely to map the
intellectual development of Barth and to locate that contextually
within the political circumstances that surrounded him.
*Kevin Hargaden, Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice, Studies in
Christian Ethics*
Tietz has written a readable and meticulously researched biography
of Karl Barth (1886-1968). She integrates Barth's life and work,
and a very ''human'' Karl Barth emerges.
*D.K. McKim, CHOICE Connect, Vol. 59 No. 8*
Selected as a 2021 Book of the Year by Alan Billings, Church
Times
Tietz's book is outstanding: her chapter-length summary of Barth's
monumental, multi-volume 'Church Dogmatics' (1932-67),
theologically the cornerstone and pinnacle of his achievement, is
among the best short treatments of it I have read.
*Stephen J. Plant, Times Literary Supplement*
Tietz provides a sound and useful orientation to Barth's life and
work.
*Michael Banner, The Tablet*
Remarkable ... meticulously researched and thoroughly referenced...
[it] will become a standard text for all engaging with Barth's
theology for generations to come.
*Natalie Watson, Church Times*
Tietz uses an impressive array of primary sources such as letters
to his friend Eduard Thurneysen to chart Barth's life.
*Paul Richardson, Church of England Newspaper*
Very readable and accessible... Tietz's biography is a good entry
into [Barth's] life and thought.
*Richard A. Kauffman, Christian Century*
Karl Barth's life story is worth telling. Or, better still, worth
reading. A new biography, Karl Barth: A Life in Conflict by
Christiane Tietz, tells it well... It is a compelling read.
*Neil Richardson, Methodist Recorder*
Christiane Tietz compellingly explores the interactions between
Barths personal and political biography and his theology... an
evocative portrait of a theologian
*, Englewood Review of Books*
[Tietz] is a reliable guide to her academic grandfather and the
biography functions as a sound, accessible introduction to Barth's
thought.
*R. R. Reno, First Things*
Tietz successfully places Barth's heological writings within key
events of his life and the wider world, providing a broader context
that illuminates his thought far more than the typical summaries.
The portrait that emerges across the decades of Barth's career is
one of an irascible thinker who seems to enjoy having controversial
opinions.
*Best Books of 2021, Todd Brewer, Mockingbird*
[The book] reads smoothly but with the kind of clarity that is
symptomatic of the best kind of academic work. In other words, the
book is highly readable yet very much built on a reliable
foundation... Tietz's work is diligent and insightful. I suspect
her book will become the standard biography of Karl Barth for some
time. For students of Barth's theology, it is indispensable.
*Stephen D. Morrison*
Christiane Tietz has done exemplary well in composing a thoroughly
broad and yet deep investigation...We further believe this
biography will be the standard biography on Barth for many years to
come.
*Bradley M. Penner, Reviews in Religion and Theology*
Tietz's work will be another standard biographical treatment of
Barth for years to come and is thus highly recommended.
*Ximian Xu, Journal of Reformed Theology*
This book is a stunning achievement. That a biography of a
theologian is so engrossing speaks not only to the kind of life
that Barth led, but also to the skill and patience of the
biographer.
*Declan Kelly, Rezension Kelly Journal of Ecclesiastical
History*
The book takes an honourable place in introductory works on
Barth.
*Tim Gorringe, Modern Believing*
This book is a stunning achievement.
*Declan Kelly, Journal of Ecclesiastical History*
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