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^{page 409 note 4} Barth, K., Der Römerbrief. Zweite Auflage (1922) as cited and translated in idem, Church Dogmatics [hereafter CD] II/I, trans. Bromiley, G. W. and Torrance, T. F. (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1957, 1980), 634f.Google Scholar [ Hoskyns's, E C. translation of the text is not reliable at this point: The Epistle to the Romans (London: Oxford University Press, 1953), 314—Trans.].Google Scholar

^{page 409 note 5} K. Barth, CD 11/1, 635.

^{page 410 note 6} Schäfer, Rolf, ‘Christentum, Wesen des’, Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie, ed. Ritter, Joachim, Vol. I (Basel / Stuttgart: Schwabe, 1971), 1008–1016, 1012.Google Scholar

^{page 412 note 7} Barth, K., Die christliche Dogmatik im Entwutf, Vol. 1: Die Lehre vom Worte Gotles, Prolegomena tur christlichen Dogmatik, ed. Sauter, Gerhard (Zürich: TVZ, 1982), 150, 162, 489, 583; CD I/I, 269.Google Scholar

For the Festschrift in honor of Karl Barth's 80th birthday I contributed a study on the phrase:‘Dogma—ein eschatologischer Begriff in Busch, Eberhard, Fangmeier, Jürgen, and Geiger, Max, eds., PARRHESIA (Zürich: EVZ, 1966), 173–191Google Scholar; published in a revised form in Sauter, G., Erwartung und Erfahrung. Predigten, Vorträge und Aufsätze (Munich: Chr. Kaiser, 1972), 16–46.Google Scholar

^{page 413 note 8} Moltmann, J., Theology of Hope. On the Ground and the Implications of a Christian Eschatology, trans. Leitch, J. W. (London: SCM Press, 1967).Google Scholar

^{page 413 note 9} Barth, K., Letters 1961–1968, eds. Fangmeier, J and Stoevesandt, H., trans, and ed. by Bromiley, G. W. (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1981), # 172, 174–176, 175.Google Scholar

^{page 413 note 10} Ibid.

^{page 414 note 11} Ibid., 175f.

^{page 414 note 12} Moltmann, J., Theology of Hope, 102–112.Google Scholar

^{page 414 note 13} Ibid., 288f.

^{page 415 note 14} Ibid., 260.

^{page 415 note 15} At this point Moltmann has been inspired by Dutch apostolate theology, according to his student Hans Georg Link (‘Hoffnung’, Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie, III [1974], 1157–1166, 1166). Yet this theology is interested in programs for shaping or altering the world in a Christian manner, and to this extent stands close to Culture Protestantism — though with different political signs than the latter. Nothing of that however can be found by Barth in CDIV/3, § 72 (‘The Holy Spirit and the Sending of the Christian Community’), despite occasional programatic erruptions. In this connection, cf. Beintker, Michael, ‘Die politische Verantwortung der Christengemeinde im Denken Karl Barths’, Zeitschrifi für dialtktische Theologie 12 (1996), 149–174Google Scholar, esp. 161ff.

^{page 416 note 16} Barth, K., Protestant Theology in the Nineteenth Century: Its Background and History, trans.Bowden, J. et al. (London: SCM Press, 1972), 646.Google Scholar

^{page 416 note 17} Ibid., 648.

^{page 416 note 18} Ibid., 652 [ET incorrecdy translates Glaube (faith) as ‘grace’ — Trans.].

^{page 416 note 19} Blumhardt, Christoph, ed., Gesammelte Werke von Joh. Christoph Btumhardt, Vol. III, Gesammdte Aufsätze, pt 1: Besprechung wichtiger Glaubensfragen (Karlsruhe, 1888), 52.Google Scholar

^{page 416 note 20} Barth, K., Protestant Theology in the Nineteenth Century, 647.Google Scholar

^{page 417 note 21} Schweitzer, Albert, The Quest for the Historical Jcsus:A Critical Study of its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede, trans. Montgomery, W. (London: A.& C. Black, 1910Google Scholar; reprinted by Macmillan, 1968) [Montgomery translates konsequente Eschatohgieas ‘thoroughgoing eschatology’ — Trans].

^{page 418 note 22} On June 5, 1915 Barth wrote his friend Eduard Thurneysen, who had given him books on the writings of the elder and younger Blumhardt: ‘I am now reading the life of J. Chr. Blumhardt [Zündel, Friedrich, Johann Christoph Blumhardt. Ein Lebensbild (Zürich/Heilbronn, 1880Google Scholar)] and I am totally amazed how powerfully all ‘our’ best ideas are already understood and expressed there’. Reprinted in Karl Barth — Eduard Thumeysm, Briefwechsel, Vol.I. 1913–1921, ed. Thurneysen, E. (Zürich: TVZ, 1973), 51Google Scholar [This letter is not included in the ET of this book — Trans.].

^{page 418 note 23} Busch, Eberhard, Karl Barth. His Life from Letters and Autobiographical Texts, trans. Bowden, J. (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1976), 83–87Google Scholar. Cf. also Barth's, ‘Autobiographical sketch from the faculty album of the Faculty of Evangelical Theology at Münster (1927)’ in Karl Barth — Rudolf Bultmann: Letters, 1922–1966, ed. Jaspert, B., trans. Bromiley, G. W. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1981)Google Scholar, # 38:1, 150–157, 154.

^{page 419 note 24} ‘Past and Future: Friedrich Naumann and Christoph Blumhardt’ (1919), translated and reprinted in The Beginnings of Dialectical Theology, Vol. I, ed. Robinson, J. M., trans. Crim, K. R. and De Grazia, L. (Richmond, VA: John Knox, 1968), 35–45, 45.Google Scholar

^{page 419 note 25} Ibid.

^{page 419 note 26} ‘Es werden Zeichen geschehen’, Biblische Zeugnisse 28 (1930), 353–363Google Scholar, cited in Barth, Karl / Thumeysen, Eduard, Die große Barmhenigkeit. Predigten 1921–1935 (Munich, 1935), 154–164Google Scholar; reprinted in Barth, K., Predigten 1921–1935, ed. Finze, H., Gesamtausgabe, Abt. I (Zurich: TVZ, 1998), 230–241.Google Scholar

Walter Kreck once told me that in the week following this sermon Barth sharply rejected any historico-theological or-philosophical interpretation of the ‘signs of the time’ in his seminar. In this regard the student Kreck asked if Barth had not carried out exactly such an interpretation in his sermon on the previous Sunday. This led to a very intense discussion, which Barth concluded with the verdict: ‘You are simply not to ask me such questions!’

^{page 419 note 27} Ibid., 236.

^{page 420 note 28} lbid., 239f.

^{page 420 note 29} Ibid., 241.

^{page 420 note 30} CD II/l, 619–640; cf. also CD III/2, § 47.1: ‘Jesus, Lord of Time’.

^{page 420 note 31} Barth, K., Letters 1961–1968, 176.Google Scholar

^{page 420 note 32} CD IV/3, 294. This motif is taken up by Kreck, Walter in Die Zukunft des Gekommenen. Grundprobleme der Eschatologie (Munich: Chr. Kaiser, 1961).Google Scholar

^{page 421 note 33} Ibid.

^{page 421 note 34} Ibid., 296.

^{page 421 note 35} Ibid., 295.

^{page 421 note 36} This doctrine is thoroughly praised by Gotthard Oblau, Gotteszeit und Menschenzeit. Eschatologie in der Dogmatik, KirchlichenKarl Barths (NBST 6) (Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1988)Google Scholar. Cf. also Klappert, Bertold, Versöhnung und Befreiung. Vemuhe, Karl Barth kontextuellzu verstehen (NBST 14) (Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1994), 354–358Google Scholar. Klappert stresses the teleological aspect of Barth's eschatology.

^{page 421 note 37} K. Barth, CD IV/3, 10.

^{page 422 note 38} This is now documented in detail in: Blumhardt, Johann Christoph, Der Kampf in Möttlingen, #Gesammelte Werke, Vol. I/1 and 1/2, ed. Schäfer, G. with Ernst, P. [Vol. 1/2 also ed. by D. Ising] (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1979).Google Scholar

^{page 422 note 39} K. Barth, CD IV/3, 172.

^{page 422 note 40} De triomf der genade in de theotogie van Karl Barth, trans. Boer, H. R. (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1956).Google Scholar

^{page 422 note 41} K. Barth, CD IV/3, 174.

^{page 422 note 42} Ibid., 176.

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^{page 423 note 44} Ibid., 275.

^{page 423 note 45} The relation of promise ‘to the existing and given reality is that of a specific inadaequatio rei et intellectus’ (Moltmann, , Theology of Hope, 85).Google Scholar

^{page 424 note 46} With regards to this structure, cf. Dalferth, Ingolf U., ‘Theologischer Realismus und realistische Theologie bei Karl Barth’, Evangelische Theologie 46 (1986), 402–422CrossRefGoogle Scholar; idem, ‘Karl Barth's Eschatological Realism’ in Sykcs, S. W., ed., Karl Barth: Centenary Essays (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).Google Scholar

^{page 426 note 47} Letter to Werner Rüegg, July 6, 1961, in Letters 1961–1968, # 4, 9.

^{page 426 note 48} In CD III/2, 107 Barth uses the metaphor ‘veil of eternal life’ in a paraphrase of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Die Bestimmung des Menschen [The Destiny of Man]. In CD III/4, 560f. Barth speaks about the transcendence of active life: ‘But the matter is not so simple that man has only to halt in his work, or in some sense to pass trough the veil on the frontier of his work, to stumble at once and per se upon God’.

^{page 427 note 49} This has been masterfully elucidated by Traub, Hellmut, a colleague and friend of Barth since the years in Bonn, in his theological sketch, ‘Worauf hoffen wir eigentlich?’ in sRechtfertigung und Erfahrung, eds. Beintker, Michael, Manrer, Ernstpeter, Stoevesandt, Hinrich, and Ulrich, Hans G. (Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus/Chr. Kaiser, 1995), 185–207.Google Scholar

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^{page 428 note 51} K. Barth, CD III/2, 624.

^{page 428 note 52} Ibid., 632f.

^{page 429 note 53} CD IV/3, 312.

^{page 429 note 54} CD IV/3, 315.

^{page 429 note 55} For example, cf. Wolfhart Pannenberg, who at the very least cites Barth incompletely.Pannenberg writes that ‘Barth speaks of the ‘eternalizing’ of the earthly life-story of human beings’ of the ‘pure etemalizing of the actual life-story’ (‘Tod und Auferstehung in der Sicht christlicher Dogmatik’, Grundfragen systematischer Theobgie. Gesammelte Aufsätze, Vol. II [Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1980], 146–159, 156).Google Scholar