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FOREWORD

THESE chapters are a collection of addresses delivered by Karl Barth to various groups. Since the discontinuance of the periodical Zwischen den Zeiten, he and Eduard Thurneysen have edited a series of pamphlets entitled Theologische Existenz Heute. These addresses were published in the latter series of pamphlets in different numbers.

The three addresses, on “Revelation,” “Church,” and “Theology,” Professor Barth explains, “were delivered by invitation of the Free Protestant Theological Faculty in Paris, France, from April tenth to twelfth, 1934.”

The address on “The Ministry of the Word of God” was “delivered on September eleventh, 1934, at a meeting of pastors of the western section of Switzerland in Vaumarcus, Canton Neufchatel, in French, and redelivered in the original German on September twelfth at Pratteln, Canton Baselland, at a pastors’ conference.” The theme of the address was assigned to Professor Barth by those who sponsored the meeting in western Switzerland. It touches upon something quite akin to the subject of the last chapter in this book concerning the Christian as a witness, which was published as number twelve in the Theologische Existenz Heute.

The chapter on “The Christian as Witness” is a “stenographic report of an address delivered on the seventh of August, 1934, at the International Summer Conference for Students at La Chataigneraie, near Coppett, in Canton Vaud, Switzerland.” This theme was also assigned to Professor Barth.

The “Appendix” contains “added stenographic reports of the discussions which followed the address on ‘The Christian as Witness.’ The German language was used both in the addresses and the discussions. But two interpreters, well versed in the subject matter and in their respective languages, rendered them into French and English.”

E. G. H.