The Swiss Protestant theologian Karl Barth (1886-1968), a giant in the history of Christian thought, initiated what became the dominant movement in Protestant theology up to the present day. Karl Barth was born on May 10, 1886, in Basel, the eldest son...

Barth, Karl [addendum] Since his death in 1968, time and distance have provided scholars with space to understand Karl Barth in a larger intellectual and cultural context. He has emerged as one of the most important Christian theologians of the...

BARTH, KARL (1886–1968), Swiss Reformed theologian, described by Pope Pius XII as the greatest theologian since Thomas Aquinas, and certainly the most influential of the twentieth century. Barth stands as a prophetic voice in the tradition of...

Barth, Karl(1886 s Table Talk, Recorded and Edited by John D. Godsey (Edinburgh, 1963)....

Born in Basel, Barth spent his childhood years in Bern. From 1911 to 1921 he served as a Reformed pastor in the village of Safenwil in the canton Aargau. In 1913 he married Nelly Hoffman, a talented violinist. They would have four sons and a daughter....

Karl Barth. By John Webster. Outstanding Christian Thinkers series. second edition. New York: Continuum, 2004. xvi + 181 pp. $27.95 (paper). Among all the recent publications about Karl Barth, John Webster's discussion of this theological giant invites our attention as a highly authoritative...

Karl Barth: Theologian of Christian Witness by Joseph L Mangina. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004. 208 pp. $29.95 (paper). "As an aside" Joseph Mangina writes in a revealing endnote, "a whole essay could be written comparing the many 'Barths': Barthian, dialectical,...