Karl Barth, Catholic Renewal and Vatican II

Benjamin Dahlke is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Catholic Theology, University of Mainz, Germany.Bruce McCormack is Professor of Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, USA.

• Introduction1. The Epistle to the Romans: First Reactions to Karl Barth2. Anti-Modern Modern: The Philosophical Presumptions of Dialectical Theology3. Unity in Faith: The Munster Circle, Robert Grosche and the Periodical Catholica 4. Fides quaerens intellectum: Barth's Essay on Anselm of Canterbury5. The Invention of the Antichrist? Catholic Reactions to Barth's Condemnation of the analogia entis6. Hans Urs von Balthasar's Contribution to the Renewal of Catholic Theology7. Balthasar's Perception of Barth's Line of Thought 8. Balthasar's Appropriation of Barth's Line of Thought (1948-1951)9. Balthasar's Later Writings on Barth's Thought (after 1951) SummaryBibliographyAuthor IndexSubject Index

‘Benjamin Dahlke's book concisely tells the previously unknown but nevertheless fascinating story of the intensive dialogue between Karl Barth and a rather varied group of German speaking Catholic colleagues. Parts of Barth's most attentive audience, it seems, came from a field that he himself looked upon with a curious mixture of suspicion, disdain and lively interest. Dahlke shows that conversing with Barth or criticizing his theology became one of the most striking phenomena of Catholic theology in search of reform from the 1930s to the 1960s. Dahlke's finely written book is in itself a history of Catholic theology on the way to Vatican II.' - Prof. Dr Leonhard Hell, University of Mainz, Germany