This book uses Karl Barths Der Römerbrief (1922) as a prism through which to explore the role of religion and its interactions with cultural and political thought in the turbulent interwar period in Europe. One of the most influential books in twentieth-century protestant theology, Der Römerbrief found Barth arguing that the crisis of the time was grounded in an even more profound crisis that pertained to the human condition as such. While much research has been conducted on Der Römerbrief, most of it has focused on the books explicit theology. The aim of the present volume is to mark the centenary of this seminal book with a broader investigation into the movements of thought within Der Römerbrief and its reception and impact within its cultural and intellectual context. This broader approach by a range of Northern European researchers brings attention to interconnections between cultural and theological movements intimes of crisis.
1. Crisis and Reorientation Introduction.- 2. Karl Barths
Performative Theology: Context and Rhetorics in Der Römerbrief 1922.- 3. As
a tangent touching a circle: Karl Barth and dialectical theologians
rethinking time after 1918.- 4. Prophecy as a politicaltheological category
in Barths Römerbrief?.- 5. From Answers to Questions: Barth and Thurneysen
on Dostoyevsky.- 6. The Positive Role of Culture in Barth and Tillichs
Discussion of the Paradox in 1923.- 7. An Apocalyptic Tone: Karl Barths Der
Römerbrief between neo-Kantian and hermeneutic paradigms of orientation.- 8.
Revisiting the crisis theology of Karl Barth in light of Søren Kierkegaard in
a new time of crisis.- 9. The Voice of the Preacher: Literary and Rhetorical
Aspects of Der Römerbrief.- 10. A Literary Reception of Karl
Barths Römerbrief: On Barthianism in John Updikes Rogers Version.- 11.
Theology After Gulag and Beyond: How Can Karl Barths Theology Contribute
to Reorientation in the Contemporary European Crisis? A post-Soviet Case.
Christine Svinth-Værge Põder teaches Systematic Theology at the Univeristy of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is the author of Doxological Hiddenness. The Fundamental Theological Significance of Prayer in Karl Barths Work, (2009), and editor of Mellem tiderne - fem dialektiske teologer, (2015).
Sigurd Baark teaches Systematic Theology at the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the author of The Affirmations of Reason: on Karl Barths Speculative Theology (2018).
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