The Crisis of Theological Science: A Contextual Study of the Development of Karl Barth's Concept of Theology as Science from 1901-1923

This dissertation offers a contextual study of the development of Karl Barth’s concept of theology as science (Wissenschaft) from 1901 to 1923. Tracing Barth’s path from his theological formation amid Marburg neo-Kantianism through his break with liberalism to the eve of his dogmatic lectures, it argues that the question of theology’s scientific character stood at the center of the crisis out of which his dialectical theology emerged.