Karl Barth's Theological Method.

CONTENTS

I. Introduction.
• Four Standpoints.
• A Critic's Difficulties.
• The Word of God.

II. Modernism.
• Modernism Exalts Man.
• Barth Exalts God.
• The Concept of God.
• Derivative Doctrines.
• Barth and Hitler.

III. Dogmatic Method.
• The Church and the World.
• The Norm of Logic.
• Norms Two to Five.
• Axiomatization.
• Science, Theology, and the Church.

IV. Prolegomena and Apologetics.
• Is Apologetics Possible?
• Common Ground.
• God's Image to Man.

V. Language and Knowledge.
• Barth's Rationality.
• Hesitation.
• An Argument on Dogma.
• Propositions and Words.
• Skepticism.>

VI. The Word of God in Its Threefold Form.
• The Word of God as Preached.
• The Written Word of God.
• The Revealed Word of God.
• The Unity of the Three Forms.
• Has God Spoken?
• Contemporaneity.

VII. Verbal Revelation.
• Barth's Assertion and Denial of Biblical Authority.
• Barth's View of Inspiration.
• History of the Doctrine.
• A Functioning Christianity.

Index.