' Moving beyond the 'decadent Christianity' that mistakenly sought its very starting points in the epistemological and metaphysical dead ends characteristic of 'modernity

Its impact has long transcended the religious realm and has influenced ideological

as it was in most of the New Testament

He is the author of Interpreting the Pauline Epistles and The Law and Its Fulfillment: A Pauline Theology of Law

Portmann then loops back into the past to outline the key moments in the history of sin from the ancient Greeks and Israelites through Jesus and Paul to Augustine and Dante and on up to the present

Makers of the Modern Theological Mind: Karl Barth Missionsvetenskap & religionsdialog ' Moving beyond the 'decadentKarl Barth (18861968) is perhaps the most influential Protestant theologian of the twentieth century. He has been called a modern church father, who belongs in the list of the most illustrious theologians in the history of Christianity. The whole course of modern theology changed direction because of his work. His Epistle to the Romans fell like a bomb on the playground of the theologians. This is Karl Barth, who dominates the theology of the