2. Dogmatics and Church Proclamation This section does not hold Barth's strongest writing.  Barth's own structure gives indirect support to this appraisal in §7,3 "The Problem of Dogmatic Prolegomena" (I/1/287-292), nearly at the center of I/1. There Barth summarizes his broad argument undertaken in §1--§7 --but never even implicitly refers to §3 at all! Barth … Continue reading I/1/ § 3 Church Proclamation as the Material of Dogmatics

1. Language about God and Church Proclamation With §3 Barth passes from "prolegomena" strictly to the first major chapter of The Doctrine of the Word of God, entitled The Word of God as the Criterion of Dogmatics.  The intellectual material which dogmatics considers is Church Proclamation, and Barth must situate such proclamation in the wider … Continue reading 1/1 § 3 Church Proclamation as the Material of Dogmatics