Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 39-41)

Dr. Robert L. Reymond holds degrees from Bob Jones University and has done post-graduate work at Fuller Theological Seminary and New York University. In addition, he was a Visiting Scholar at Union Theological Seminary, New York, during the summer of 1964. Since 1961 he has served on the Bob Jones University faculty in the Graduate Department of Old Testament, teaching Semitic languages and theology. In addition to his teaching duties he edits the Biblical and Theological Studies Series, a component part of the International Library of Philosophy and Theology published by the Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company. He is also associate editor of the Craig Press, Nutley, New Jersey. Dr. Reymond has traveled throughout the Middle East, and is a member of the American Schools of Oriental Research, the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, and the Evangelical Theological Society. Besides his booklets, A Christian View of Modern Science and Brunner's Dialectical Encounter, Dr. Reymond's published articles have appeared in Biblical Viewpoint, the Bob Jones University graduate faculty publication, and the Creation Research Society Quarterly. - The author.

"This monograph has been extracted from its author's forthcoming book, Introductory Studies in Contemporary Theology, soon to be published by this company." - Publisher's note.

Karl Barth (1886- ) was born in Basel, Switzerland, and educated at the Universities of Berne (under his father, a New Testament theologian), Berlin (under Adolf von Harnack, the Ritschlian church historian), and Marburg (under Wilhelm Herrmann). During the second decade of this century he pastored a church in Safenwil, Switzerland, becoming there increasingly disenchanted with his liberal theological training because of the backing which his mentors had given to the military policy of Kaiser Wilhelm II and because of the fact of World War I itself. Between 1915 and 1919 Barth and Eduard Thurneysen, an intimate friend and also a pastor, re-evaluated their theology, the result of Barth's research being his Römerbrief. Therein, besides the Bible, was the influence of Kierkegaard, Overbeck, and Dostoievski. During the 1920s, which may be regarded as the decade of his existentialist approach to theology, Barth taught at the Universities of Göttingen and Münster. The year 1927 saw the publication of his Christian Dogmatics, an effort which he later began anew and replaced with his monumental Church Dogmatics. From 1930 to 1934 he taught at the University of Bonn, at the end of which time he returned to his home town of Basel and taught there in the University until his retirement in 1961. The last thirty years have witnessed an amazing literary creativity, his Church Dogmatics already filling thirteen large volumes in English translation. In 1962 he visited the United States for the first time under the auspices of Chicago Divinity School and Princeton Theological Seminary. Though now an octogenarian, he is still actively engaged in the completion of the final volume of his magnum opus. In addition to his Dogmatics, he has authored some forty or fifty books and several hundred articles covering a wide range of topics, many of a non-theological nature. - About Karl Barth.