Call for God: New Sermons from Basel Prison

  • Year 1965
  • Type Sermon
  • Genre sermons
  • Tradition Reformed
  • Original language German

For For any reader who wants Barth's late preaching; simple and direct. Not a theological treatise.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
4 of 5 strongly recommended
For the researcher
2 of 5 useful
Difficulty
1 of 5 light

Barth's later sermons to prisoners in Basel, a sequel to Deliverance to the Captives.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 1 of 5
  • Scriptural 4 of 5
  • Experiential 4 of 5
  • Sociological 2 of 5
  • Historical 0 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

A second collection of sermons Barth preached in the prison at Basel, published in Zürich by EVZ-Verlag in 1965 (131 pages) as a sequel to Den Gefangenen Befreiung. A. T. Mackay's English translation, Call for God, was published by SCM Press in 1967.

Catalog IDW.WPPG4N.7

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