Barth on ‘Preaching Toward Truth’

Abstract

Karl Barth’s doctrine on “Jesus Christ, the True Witness,” in Church Dogmatics IV/3, is an extremely rich and complex text which – strangely enough – still awaits proper reception within both systematic theology and homiletics. Therefore, this paper introduces Barth anew to us, and then in essence explores this well-kept secret in Barth’s oeuvre. In doing so, it provides a few important keywords which may reveal some deeper truth(s) in Barth’s doctrine of reconciliation and the question of preaching toward truth.