Thank you, Pastor Spaulding for calling your readership to the attention of this slim volume of Barth's sermons from 1954 to 1959, preached primarily at the Basel prison. I have returned to them often over the years, because they are Barth at his best. Barth's theology informs each sermon, but they are not didactic, they are empathic and still fresh, and without condescension. Here readers may hear Barth as a messenger of hope for every prisoner and for us all.
Thank you, Pastor Spaulding for calling your readership to the attention of this slim volume of Barth's sermons from 1954 to 1959, preached primarily at the Basel prison. I have returned to them often over the years, because they are Barth at his best. Barth's theology informs each sermon, but they are not didactic, they are empathic and still fresh, and without condescension. Here readers may hear Barth as a messenger of hope for every prisoner and for us all.
James Kay