Edition project: Lectures and minor works of Karl Barth 1937-1939

瑞士人卡尔·巴特（Karl Barth，1886-1968）是20世纪世纪最重要的新教神学家。卡尔·巴特-Gesamtausgabe是巴特出版和未出版作品的评论版。介绍了文本的历史背景，起源，出版历史和第一反应。脚注提供解释，并记录文本变体，典故和引文。到目前为止，共出版了54卷。该项目的目的是准备的讲座和小作品的卡尔巴特，他写了1937年7月至1939年12月的版本。1937-1939年的讲座和小作品的主要议题是德国的教会斗争，国家社会主义和政治伦理。进一步的问题是神的话语的教义，教会和以色列的关系，基督教的希望，教育（Bildung）和教会的进步。三部作品是对改革宗忏悔录的解释。1935年夏天，巴特，自1930年以来在波恩的系统神学教授，被解雇并被驱逐出德国。他回到瑞士，被任命为巴塞尔大学系统神学教授。由于他不能再积极参与教会斗争，他试图通过他的著作来影响它。此外，他还试图通过演讲、旅行和信件来影响瑞士和其他国家对教会斗争和国家社会主义的态度。巴特在1938年提出了一个新的神学方法的政治伦理。基于这种伦理，他批评了国家社会主义的神学论据，因为它带走了教会的自由，说教，破坏了正义，自由以及秩序，它主张一个“主要的反犹太主义”。在德国，但也在瑞士和其他欧洲国家巴特受到攻击，由于他的国家社会主义和西方绥靖主义的严厉批评。他被指责将神学与政治混为一谈，并鼓吹战争。在编写这一版本的同时，还将研究巴特的欧洲网络，新教对国家社会主义和教会斗争的解释，以及巴特的政治伦理。

The Swiss Karl Barth (1886-1968) was the most important Protestant theologian of the 20th century. The Karl Barth-Gesamtausgabe is a critical edition of published and unpublished works of Barth. Introductions inform about the historical background of the texts, the genesis, the history of publication and first reactions. Footnotes provide explanations and document textual variants, allusions and citations. Until now, 54 volumes are published. Aim of the project is to prepare the edition of the lectures and minor works of Karl Barth which he wrote from July 1937 to December 1939. The main topics of the lectures and minor works 1937-1939 are the Church Struggle in Germany, the National Socialism, and political ethics. Further issues are the doctrine of the Word of God, the relation of the Church and Israel, the Christian hope, education (Bildung) and progress in the Church. Three works are interpretations of Reformed Confessions.In the summer of 1935 Barth, since 1930 Professor of Systematic Theology in Bonn, was dismissed and expulsed from Germany. He returned to Switzerland and was appointed Professor for Systematic Theology at the University of Basel. As he could no longer take an active part in the Church Struggle, he tried to impact it by his writings. Further, he tried to influence the attitude towards the Church Struggle and National Socialism in Switzerland and other countries by lectures, journeys, and letters. In 1938 Barth presented a new theological approach to political ethics. Based on this ethics he criticised the National Socialism by theological arguments, for it takes away the church’s freedom to preach, destroyed justice, freedom as well as order, and it advocated a ›principal anti-Semitism‹. In Germany, but also in Switzerland and in other European countries Barth was attacked due to his severe criticism of National Socialism and of Western appeasement. He was accused of mixing theology with politics and of warmongering.The preparation of the edition will be accompanied by studies on Barth’s European ›networking‹, on Protestant interpretations of the National Socialism and the Church Struggle and on Barth’s political ethics.