Switzerland's Karl Earth, founder of the potent "neo-orthodox" movement in modern Protestantism, has so far completed six massive volumes of his Kirch-liche Dogmatik, which may turn out to be the most imposing theological work of modern times. But Calvinist Barth is more than a theologian's theologian; he can also write brilliantly for laymen. Readers who are not frightened away by the dry crackle of its title will find Christian challenge and mental stimulus in a new Barth book published last week, Dogmatics in Outline (Philosophical Library; $3.75).
Law & Love. The book is a series of lectures delivered under dramatic conditions....
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