Abstract

Karl Barth’s basic exclusion of the natural knowledge of God from his theological synthesis, which has evolved over the past forty years and has been much discussed, is expounded in this compact study with meticulous documentation, which is fairly balanced between Barth himself, his expositors and critics, and critically evaluated from the traditional viewpoint of philosophical theodicy. The author properly claims: ‘In spite of the fact... that the studies on Barth’s ideas multiply on both sides, Protestant and Catholic, it cannot be said that we have reached the last word on the subject of our natural knowledge of God’s existence and on the value of the theories advanced by Barth.... The present study proposes to stress the value of reason’.