Karl Barth: Post-Holocaust Theologian?

It is clear that [this] volume offer[s] a great service to both the world of interfaith dialogue and to Barth scholarship… exceptionally rich and multifaceted resources of historical and theological insight, providing illuminating studies of events and texts of the past and provoking gestures towards the future. * Modern Theology *
A rich resource for participants in the continuing debate about Barth’s legacy, as well as for those wanting to think theologically post-Holocaust. * Theology Journal *
This collection is extremely important not only for an appropriate understanding of Karl Barth, but also for a crucial consciousness regarding all theological efforts in the awareness of enduring theological Anti-Judaism. Responsible ecclesiology and even all ecumenical perspectives have to be substantially aware of the indissoluble relationship between Church and Israel. Obviously there are different approaches but they all serve the same responsibility that has to be discovered anew—not only in Germany. * Michael Weinrich, University of Bochum, Germany *
The specter of anti-Semitism has haunted Karl Barth’s theology like a ghost. Denial and defense, or outright dismissal on those grounds, present all-too-easy—and too familiar—responses, equally inadequate. This book looks at Barth’s complicated relationship to Jews and Judaism unflinchingly in its face, and then sets out to rectify Barth in Barthian fashion. The result is debate and elucidation that the church has desperately needed for some time. * Jason A. Springs, University of Notre Dame, USA *
This welcome volume draws together ‘treasures old and new‘—Contemporary path-breaking research into Karl Barth’s contribution to Christian theology after the Holocaust is joined here by the insights of earlier, now classic, essays on the theme. Together, these authors renew the call to think urgently and responsibly about what Barth himself considered the great ecumenical question: namely, the question of church and synagogue.” * Philip G. Ziegler, University of Aberdeen, UK *
All Christian theology must give an account of its relation to Israel and Jewish people or it is not Christian theology. Karl Barth understood this. This wonderful collection of essays by leading Barth scholars takes up what Barth understood and in so doing asks us whether Karl Barth was a Post-Holocaust theologian. Their answer to this question is not first a matter for historical theology, but for what Christian theology must be in this moment and for our time. Indeed we are yet to understand fully how Christian theology has been changed by the Holocaust, and what a Post-Holocaust theology looks like. This text brings us a long way toward envisioning such a theology by exploring Karl Barth as such a theologian. * Willie James Jennings, Yale Divinity School, USA *