Karl Barth in the Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

This important work explores the complex relationship between two of the twentieth century's most formidable Christian thinkers-Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Seizing on a much-discussed criticism that Bonhoeffer made of Barth's theology in his prison letters-that Barth was guilty of a "positivism of revelation"-Andreas Pangritz challenges scholars who have used this statement, despite being left undeveloped by Bonhoeffer, as a wedge to separate the two theologians. Through a careful s...