Anselm: Fides Quaerens Intellectum

by Karl Barth

Overview

This is one of Barth's most important works - far more important than may appear at first sight.... Here we have not merely one great theologian taking the measure of another. That in itself would be interesting enough. But in addition to that we are here shown one great theologian clarifying and crystallizing, in conversation with another, his own ideas as to the nature of theology and of the theologian's task. Scottish Journal of Theology

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780915138753
Publisher:	Pickwick Publications
Publication date:	01/01/1975
Series:	Pittsburgh Reprint , #2
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	178
Product dimensions:	5.48(w) x 8.48(h) x 0.39(d)

About the Author

Karl Barth (1886-1968), the Swiss Reformed professor and pastor, was once described by Pope Pius XII as the most important theologian since Thomas Aquinas. As principal author of 'The Barmen Declaration', he was the intellectual leader of the German Confessing Church - the Protestant group that resisted the Third Reich. Barth's teaching career spanned nearly five decades. Removed from his post at Bonn by the Nazis in late 1934, Barth moved to Basel where he taught until 1962. Among Barth's many books, sermons, and essays are the 'Epistle to the Romans', 'Humanity of God', 'Evangelical Theology', and 'Church Dogmatics'.

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"'There is no way from us to God - not even a 'via negativa' - not even a 'via dialectica' nor 'paradoxa'. The god who stood at the end of some human way...would not be God.' This assertation, which would seem to discourage all theology, is by Karl Barth, the most prominent, prolific, and (it seems to me) persuasive of twentieth-century theologians.... As a critical theologian, Barth ranks with Kierkegaard; as a constructive one, with Aquinas and Calvin."

-John Updike

Editorial Reviews

"'There is no way from us to God - not even a 'via negativa' - not even a 'via dialectica' nor 'paradoxa'. The god who stood at the end of some human way...would not be God.' This assertation, which would seem to discourage all theology, is by Karl Barth, the most prominent, prolific, and (it seems to me) persuasive of twentieth-century theologians.... As a critical theologian, Barth ranks with Kierkegaard; as a constructive one, with Aquinas and Calvin."

-John Updike

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