Reddit mentions of Church Dogmatics, Vol 1.1, Sections 1-7: The Doctrine of the Word of God, Study Edition 1

Karl Barth is arguably the most significant theologian in the last two centuries, and his theological achievement is in a similar category as augustine, thomas, luther, calvin and schleiermacher. So his theology is a significant advancement of theology over all for all branches of christianity, and for a long time there were more phds written about barth than jesus and paul. Barth wrote new things, similar to the list of people I said before, and I know this is a bit grandiose, but I'm saying this to counter balance the dregs you've encountered. So in many ways, he hated by many because he also demonstrates that many peoples orthodoxies isnt so finished and final as they'd like.

Anyway, backing up. Karl Barth's greatest achievement is his 13 volume Church Dogmatics. This is basically a summa theologica, that is unfinished and divided into four volumes (the fifth was never written). Barth is also well know for his contributions to the Barmen Declaration, and it was his commentary on The Epistles to the Romans that made him world famous (in 1921).

Barth's primary achievement is his recentering and reestablishing the centrally of Jesus Christ as the revelation of god. Liberalism had reduced theology to anthropology, and Fundamentalism had replaced Jesus with the bible.

Barth's most significant ideas perhaps may be summarized on a single page of paper, and they include his doctrine of election that is a reconstruction of calvins double predestination on jesus as the one who is rejected and elected alone (CD II/2), he also explains that the bible is a witness to jesus and part of the threefold witness of the word of god (CD I/1), and Barth's rejection of all natural revelation (CD II/1), and his doctrine of atonement of the judge judged in our place (CD IV/1), and his rejection of all religion (CD I/2), and his study of the person of Jesus (CD III/2), and and and....

I have lots of content on my website: https://postbarthian.com and the Barth Center at Princeton is a great place to learn more.

Here's a great book thats easy to read and short by a Barth scholar I recommend: https://amzn.to/2Khbuvm

Also I recommend reading the Church Dogmatics as Barth's primary works. https://amzn.to/2vQEuXQ

I'm more active on twitter at https://twitter.com/postbarthian

This is great! I have a solid understanding of reformed theology, heidegger, and Calvin; but not so much modern theology or Schleiermacher, but I will definitely look into those subjects as I plan my attack for this treatise.

I mentioned in another post that I'll probably be going through the study edition because I don't think I have the theological (or multi-lingual) background to get a good understanding of this treatise when read straight-on.