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and Now," in Barth, God Here and Now. (London: Routledge
and Kegan Paul, 1964), p. 3.)
.7 Barth, Church Dogmatics: 1.1. Translated by G.T.
Thomson. (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1936), p. 134,35.
& Ibid. p. 129,30.
narth, The Knowledge of God and the Service of God
According to the Teaching of the Reformation. Translated by
J.L.M. Haire and Ian Henderson. (London: Hodder and
Stoughton, 1938), P. 38.
p. 82-84. (Cf. "It is again Jesus Christ
in whose existence sin is revealed, not only in its
actuality and sinfulness, but as the truth of all human
being and activity." Church Dogmatics: IV.1. Translated
by G.W. Bromiley. (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1956). p.
403; Also, "The decisive thing is not that He [Christ] has
suffered what we ought to have suffered so that we do not
have to suffer it, the destruction to which we have fallen
victim by our guilt, and therefore the punishment we
deserve. This is true, of course. But it is true only as
it derives from the decisive thing that in the suffering and
death of Jesus Christ it has come to pass that in His own
person He has made an end of us as sinners and therefore of
sin itself by going to death as the One who took our place
as sinners. In His person He has delivered up us sinners
and sin itself to destruction." IV.!. p. 253.)
11 Barth, Knowledge. p. 84-85. (Cf. Barth,
Evangelical Theology: An Introduction. Translated by
Grover Foley. (Grand Rapids: Eerdman's, 1963), p. 19-22;
and Barth, Credo. Translated by J. Strathearn McNab.
(London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1936), p. 48,49.)
12Barth, Evangelical Theology. p. 32.
1-s Barth, Prayer. p. 103-05. (Cf. I.1. p. 111-29.)
"'The broader term "proclamation" most accurately
describe Barth's thinking on the third form of God's
self-disclosure. Since preaching is proclamation (although
not all proclamation is preaching), what Barth wrote
concerning proclamation would be true of preaching, (and
also of other aspects of proclamation, including the
sacraments, and, perhaps, also "prayer and active love,
instruction and theology.") 1.1. p. 58. (Cf. p. 98,99.)
Barth himself gave pre-eminence, within proclamation, to
preaching. He began an argument using these two premises:
"If there is such a thing as proclamation of the Word of
God, and if preaching is foremost in proclamation, then it
[the Church] must speak to social situations." From Karl
Barth's Table Talk. Edited by John D. Godsey. (Edinburgh:
Oliver and Boyd, 1963), p. 20. (I employ quotations from
Table Talk guardedly. This work does not present Barth's
own exact words, but a text resulting from a shorthand
transcription of a Barthian interview.) Since the focus of
this paper is preaching, I use this narrower term in
discussing Barth's theology.
l Although Barth does not explicityly include
tradition as a source of revelation, he freely admitted his
debt to nineteen centuries of church tradition. He used,
extensively, the ancient creeds and council statements. In