Charlotte Von Kirschbaum And Karl Barth

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Charlotte von Kirschbaum and Karl Barth is the first concentrated study of the collaboration of the towering theologian Karl Barth and his secretary and theological assistant for more than three decades, Charlotte von Kirschbaum. Barth always maintained that he could not have produced his theological oeuvre without her. Von Kirschbaum was also his constant companion. Discussion of the two has long been aswirl in rumor and speculation, with regard both to their personal relationship and to von Kirschbaum's part in...
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Charlotte von Kirschbaum and Karl Barth is the first concentrated study of the collaboration of the towering theologian Karl Barth and his secretary and theological assistant for more than three decades, Charlotte von Kirschbaum. Barth always maintained that he could not have produced his theological oeuvre without her. Von Kirschbaum was also his constant companion. Discussion of the two has long been aswirl in rumor and speculation, with regard both to their personal relationship and to von Kirschbaum's part in Barth's theological achievement.Drawing upon published and unpublished sources that include their own writings, the observations of contemporaries, and correspondence with people who knew them, Suzanne Selinger seeks to describe the collaboration in a multidimensional way. Von Kirschbaum gave a series of lectures in 1949, published in the same year, on women in the perspective of Scripture, theology, and the church. In the three volumes of Barth's Church Dogmatics that deal with humankind, including the male-female relationship as the locus of the image of God, Barth cites von Kirschbaum's scholarship. The subject inevitably reflects upon their own relationship. Moreover, it is just this subject--the anthropology of gender-that has been the source of the categorical rejection of Barth by many feminists.The author-a Barthian, a feminist, and a trained historian-addresses the concerns of Barth's critics by agreeing deeply with them in part but also by insisting upon understanding Barth and von Kirschbaum contextually. This means biographically and in relation to early German feminism (a phenomenon little known in the English-speaking world), the intellectual movement known as dialogical personalism, and the background of everything Barth and von Kirschbaum wrote or thought in their work together: the steady, threatening growth of the Nazi state, World War II, and the postwar German situation.
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Examines the relationship between Karl Barth, a theologian, and Charlotte von Kirschbaum, Barth's secretary and theological assistant for 35 years, drawing in part on unpublished letters. Looks into von Kirschbaum's contribution to Barth's Church Dogmatics, and her influence on his ideas on gender and marriage. Includes b&w photos. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780271018645
  • Publisher: Penn State University Press
  • Publication date: 1/1/1998
  • Series: Series in Lived Religious Experience
  • Pages: 218
  • Product dimensions: 0.50 (w) x 6.00 (h) x 9.00 (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Note on Quotations and Abbreviations
Pt. 1 Questions
1 Dramatis Personae 1
2 Texts and Contexts 20
3 Feminist Approaches 38
Illustrations 43
Pt. 2 Work
1 In the Light of Thurneysen 51
2 Von Kirschbaum's Days 59
3 Influencing Barth 78
Pt. 3 Dialogue
1 Further Questions 89
2 Barth's First Anthropology of Gender 92
3 Toward a Theology of the Image of God and a Collaboration 115
4 Dialogical Personalism 126
5 Gender and the Image of God 135
6 Traces of Input, Signs of Exchange, Abiding Differences 164
7 Two Voices 178
Bibliography 194
Index 202
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