Karl Barth - author of Church Dogmatics
Now, this is a real discount. Karl Barth’s monumental Twentieth Century systematic theology, Church Dogmatics, is available at a pre-order price of $99.99 – down 90% from the recommended retail price of $995.00. That’s in hardback, too.
This is the old T&T Clark English translation, edited by T. F. Torrance and G.W. Bromiley. And the release date is 1 November 2010.
Most of the 9,233 pages and over 6,000,000 words of Karl Barth’s ponderous prose should of course be ignored. But buried amongst the detritus of theological obtuseness is a short and surprisingly sensible mini-commentary on the Book of Job – surrounded as it is by some vacuous and atavistic comments about humanity. Do you think that little “vignette” could win me a free copy?
And I wonder if it’s about to go out of copyright? Maybe somebody from Hendrickson could let me know. Update: Nope – Hendrickson say that is not the case. They just have a deal with T&T Clark to reprint the older 14-volume set, now that Continuum/T&T Clark is selling a 31-volume “study edition” set. And they’re doing it for $99.99. Isn’t that nice of them? Hat-tip: Jim West.
Second prize: two copies of the Dogmatik!
Why does the picture of Karl Barth look like Charlotte von Kirschbaum?
because he got right inside her.
Perv
…mind
prat!
why am I under friggin moderation TYRONE?????
Because you’re a troublemaker. Hang on…
I’m deeply offended. That is incredibly Wrong of you to say such an erroneous thing. :-p
AGAIN!!!!!!! I am NOT
Steph,
Relax, for Petey’s sake. Everyone is under moderation, given that we don’t really look at this thing very often and, as anything that involves Christianity and politics bring the nutjobs out into the open and we cannot give them free reign.
Eric
it’s ok Eric. I was just being facetious … but I am of course a complete nutcake with cherries on top.
I”ll give Barth a miss but might look up his commentary on Job in the library one day, and hope Hendrickson offer the same deal with Jung’s complete works instead. Good luck with your entry – and really all I want to know is who is she?!
The long standing affair was not without its difficulties. “Lollo”,[1] as Barth called the 13 year younger Charlotte. Classy. 50 DDR Deutschmarks says it was short for Lolita. Are you suggesting that “Lollo” was theology’s Zelda Fitzgerald, Ty?
O and I’m not surprised to see these sorts of publishing deals. With university libraries cutting spending, the staple market for publishers is in trouble. I’m almost certain that there’d be e-book pdf files of the doorstop floating around the internet.
vulgar, you’re citing wikipedia? really?
C’mon, Jim – it’s a post on Barth’s Dogmatics. And you’re blaming somebody for reading Wiki?
VM – … Ruskin & Rose La Touche, Caravaggio & Cecco …
James C says bless you by the way but who the hell is she Tyrone?
Lollo, light of Barth’s life, fire of his loins. His sin, his soul. Char-lot-te: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Char. Lot. Te.
She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Charlie at school. She was Charlotte von Kirschbaum on the dotted line. But in his arms she was always Lolita.
Hahaha. Printed & bluetacked to the office door to confuse and offend. Funniest thing I’ve read in weeks…
Nice use of allusion, Tyrone …
That ‘She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock’ line has always been one of my favourites in the whole of English-language literature, though it is also inestimably creepy.
The problem with arguing Lo was the author is that the prose is so bad, ‘nuf to send the worst insomniac to sleep. That, surely, should be attributed to Barth. It also goes to shwo that writing teh most turgid, flat-footed prose is no guarantee for oblivion.
Here in Dunedin, we’re currently voting on which parts of KD are attributable to Barth (the BBQ, or Barthbildungsquelle) and which parts are attributable to Charlotte (the KQ). After discussions, participants in the Historical Barth Seminar vote with a pink marble if we’re in Charlotte’s passage, and a brown marble if we’ve struck Barth’s own passage.
We hope to release the Historical Barth Seminar’s critical edition of the complete 14-volume set of KD by 2018, in order to mark the 50th anniversary celebrations of Barth’s death.
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oh my Lolita – I only had words to play with
by the way steph, barth never wrote a commentary. on job. or romans really. his work on romans is what he thinks about stuff and NOT what paul said about stuff. or in other words, in his Romerbrief, we learn barth, not paul. barth never wrote a commentary at all.
I know he didn’t write a commentary on job jim. He did write alot of waffle on alot of things though. And that’s what all commentaries are – what the commenter thinks. So you’ll be right about Romans. I’ve only read bits of his other waffle.
Thanks for trackbacking me on this one – I have yet to buy this since I wrote about it, but I’m fitting to make it rain on Christianbook.com tomorrow!
re: “Most of the 9,233 pages and over 6,000,000 words of Karl Barth’s ponderous prose should of course be ignored. But buried amongst the detritus of theological obtuseness is a short and surprisingly sensible mini-commentary on the Book of Job – surrounded as it is by some vacuous and atavistic comments about humanity. Do you think that little ‘vignette’ could win me a free copy?”
No. I don’t. Eloquently, you’ve said nothing.
If Barth’s sins preclude the legitimacy of his words, what of your arrogance? Barth loved sin, but he also loved Christ. Did Christ accept his love? Who knows. But it is quite evident, Tyrone, that you love yourself. And that is why your words will never be of any real consequence.
Sympathetically,
Jeremy
I don’t know what evidence you have that I’ve been loving myself, Jeremy. But I sympathetically suggest you have a good long wank yourself. I mean to say, you appear way too tense.