Karl Barth and the Making of Evangelical Theology: A Fifty-Year Perspective

Karl Barth traveled to the United States only once during his long career. In 1962, newly retired, he came to visit family and to deliver a series of lectures subsequently published as Evangelical Theology: An Introduction. Besides recounting biographical details about Barth’s two-month journey through the States, the contributors to this volume revisit central themes in Barth’s mature theology and explore the theological and ethical significance of his Evangelical Theology, assessing contemporary North American theology and showing how the work remains as bracing, powerful, and relevant today as it was fifty years ago.