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This volume creatively explores the history of Christian thought by imagining a series of twenty-nine dialogues and debates among key figures throughout church history. It traces the history of theology via such conversation partners as Augustine and Pelagius, Calvin and Arminius, Barth and Brunner, and Bultmann and Pannenberg. Each imagined dialogue includes a brief summary that introduces the...

21 Twentieth-Century Barth and Brunner Discuss Theological Method with Nineteenth-Century Liberal Schleiermacher Setting Once again it is necessary to use the literary device of purgatory, a training place for paradise, or heaven, to bring our theologians into conversation with one another. You’ve already met Schleiermacher in an earlier imaginary conversation (19). He was the reputed father of modern Christian theology and the father of liberal Protestant theology. Karl Barth was born in Switzerland