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Abbreviations
AB Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Act and Being: Transcendental Philosophy and Ontology in Systematic Theology. Edited by Wayne Whitson Floyd Jr. Translated by H. Martin Rumscheidt. DBW 2. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996.
ADT Anfänge der dialektischen Theologie. Vol. 1, Karl Barth, Heinrich Barth, Emil Brunner. Edited by Jürgen Moltmann. Theologische Bücherei; Neudrucke und Berichte aus dem 20. Jahrhundert, Bd. 17. Systematische Theologie. Munich: Kaiser, 1962–1963.
B-B Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann. Karl Barth-Rudolf Bultmann: Letters 1922–1966. Edited by Bernard Gaspert. Translated and edited by Geoffrey W. Bromiley. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. 1981.
BevT Beiträge zur evangelischen Theologie
BHT Beiträge zur historischen Theologie
B-Th I Karl Barth and Edward Thurneysen. Karl Barth-Edward Thurneysen: Briefwechsel, 1913–1921. Edited by Edward Thurneysen. Zurich: TVZ, 1973.
B-Th II Karl Barth-Eduard Thurneysen: Briefwechsel, 1921–1930. Zurich: TVZ, 1974.
CD Karl Barth. Church Dogmatics. 4 vols. Translated and edited by Geoffrey W. Bromiey and G. T. Thomson. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1956–1969. See also Church Dogmatics. 4 vols. Translated First paperback edition. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 2004.
CDE Karl Barth. Die Christliche Dogmatik im Entwurf. Bd. 1, Die Lehre vom Worte Gottes, Prolegomena zur christlichen Dogmatik. Edited by Gerhard Sauter. Zurich: TVZ, 1982.
DBE Eberhard Bethge. Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Man of Vision, Man of Courage. Translated by Edward Mosbacher et al. Edited by Edwin Robinson. New York: Harper & Row, 1970.
DBW Eberhard Bethge, et al., editors. Dietrich Bonhoeffer Werke. 17 vols. Munich: Kaiser, 1986–1999.
DBW Geffrey B. Kelly et al., editors. Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works. Translated by Daniel W. Bloesch and James H. Burtness. 7 vols. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996–2001.
E Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Ethics. Edited by Eberhard Bethge. Translated by Neville Horton Smith. The Library of Philosophy and Theology. New York: Macmillan, 1955.
EvT Evangelische Theologie.
EVZ Evangelischer Verlag Zurich.
FQI Barth, Karl. Anselm: Fides quaerens intellectum. Translated by Ian W. Robertson. London: SCM, 1960.
KD Karl Barth. Die kirchliche Dogmatik. Munich: Kaiser, 1932; Zurich: EVZ, 1938–1965.
KPD German Communist Party.
LPP Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Letters and Papers from Prison. Edited by Eberhard Bethge. Translated by Reginald H. Fuller, Frank Clarke, John Bowden, et al. New York: Macmillan, 1972.
LW Helmut T. Lehmann, editor. Luther’s Works. Volumes 31–55. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1955–1986; Jaroslav Pelikan, editor. Luther’s Works. Volumes 1–30. St. Louis: Concordia, 1955–1967.
MEW Institut für Marxismus-Leninismus beim ZK der SED. Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels Werke. 37 vols. in 38 bks. Berlin: Dietz, 1956–1989.
NuG Peter Fraenkel, translator. Natural Theology: Comprising “Nature and Grace” by Professor Dr. Emil Brunner and the reply “No!” by Dr. Karl Barth. London: Bles, 1946
R I Karl Barth. Der Römerbrief. Erste Fassung unveränderter Nachdruck der ersten Auflage von 1919. Zurich: EVZ, 1963.
R II Karl Barth. The Epistle to the Romans. Translated by Edwyn C. Hoskyns from the sixth German edition of Der Römerbrief. London: Oxford University Press, 1968.
SA Sturmabteilung
SC Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Sanctorum Communio: A Theological Study of the Sociology of the Church. Edited by Clifford J. Green. Translated by Reinhard Krauss and Nancy Lukens. DBW 1. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1998.
SPD Social Democratic Party of Germany.
SPS Social Democratic Party of Switzerland.
ST Thomas Aquinas. Summa Theologica. Translated by the English Dominican Fathers. 21 vols. New York: Benziger Brothers, 1947.
TC Karl Barth. Theology and Church: Shorter Writings, 1920–1928. Translated by Louise Pettibone Smith. London: SCM, 1962.
TK Karl Barth. Die Theologie und die Kirche. Munich: Kaiser, 1928.
ThSt Theologische Studien.
TVZ Theologischer Verlag Zurich
UCR I Karl Barth. The Göttingen Dogmatics: Instruction in the Christian Religion. Vol. 1. Translated by Geoffrey W. Bromiley. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991.
USPD Independent German Socialist Party.
WA D. Martin Luthers Werke: Kritische Gesamtausgabe. 61 vols. Weimar: Hermann Böhlaus Nachfolger, 1912–1921.
ZEE Zeitschrift für evangelische Ethik.
ZTK Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche.
*In this book two editions of Church Dogmatics (in 1956–1969 and 2004) are used in an interchangeable way. Translation and page numbers are different.
one Karl Barth’s Theology and Socialism in Safenwil: 1910–1918
Karl Barth’s Intellectual Background: A Biographical Sketch
Karl Barth was born in Basel, Switzerland, on May 10, 1886, where he also died on December 9, in 1968. In 1904 the young Barth began study at the University of Berne “with my father’s kind but earnest guidance and advice.” “What I owe to those Berne masters, despite everything, is that they taught me to forget any fears I might have had. They gave me such a thorough foundation in the earlier form of the “historical-critical school that the remarks of their later successors could no longer get under my skin or even touch my heart—they only got on my nerves.”1
In the winter of 1906 (on January 20) Barth delivered a lecture on “Zofingia and the Social Question.” Referring to Leonhard Ragaz, a staunch representative of Swiss religious socialism, Barth considered the social question to be “one link in the chain of development, or better the problem of mankind, which Jesus once posed to the ancient world.” By stopping a “robust gathering round the colours, whose essential national (!) task consists in handing down ‘honorable ancient student customs’ to posterity in as intact a form as possible,” Zofingia should become an association “filled with a new spirit, with the spirit of social responsibility towards the lower strata of society and above all towards ourselves.”2
As Barth argues, “We have to agree that the rift between Capital and Labour, Mammonism and pauperism, rich and poor . . . grows continually larger.”3 Although little social analysis is found here, Barth was aware of political realities as a task of Christian responsibility on the question
