{"product_id":"karl-barth-a-life-in-conflict-9780198852469","title":"Karl Barth: A Life in Conflict","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the beginning of his career  Swiss theologian Karl Barth (1886-1969) was often in conflict with the spirit of his times. While during the First World War German poets and philosophers became intoxicated by the experience of community and transcendence  Barth fought against all attempts to locate the divine in culture or individual sentiment. This freed him for a deep worldly engagement: he was known as \"the red pastor \" was the primary author of the founding document of the Confessing Church  the Barmen Theological Declaration  and after 1945 protested the rearmament of the Federal Republic of Germany. Christiane Tietz compellingly explores the interactions between Barths personal and political biography and his theology. Numerous newly-available documents offer insight into the lesser-known sides of Barth such as his long-term three-way relationship with his wife Nelly and his colleague Charlotte von Kirschbaum. This is an evocative portrait of a theologian who described himself as \"Gods cheerful partisan\" who was honored as a prophet and a genial spirit  was feared as a critic  and shaped the theology of an entire century as no other thinker.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665882996789,"sku":"ByrdShop_0198852460","price":54.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780198852469.jpg?v=1782412428","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/karl-barth-a-life-in-conflict-9780198852469","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}