Karl Barth in Chicago
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10433152 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edward D O'Connor (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1962 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 451-460 |
| Publication date | 1962-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0034670500012377 |
| OpenAlex | W2147535892 |
| Language | EN |
Karl barth has for so long been a star of the first magnitude in the firmament of religious thought that his visit to America had something of the spectacularity of an unprecedented approach of a heavenly body. But when he took his seat in the chancel of the Rockefeller Chapel at Chicago University, and peered curiously at the 2400 people gathered to hear him; when he grinned puckishly while the chairman asked no one to disturb him with flashbulbs, he betrayed a kind of oldshoe homeliness that promptly transferred him from the celestial realm to the company of one's country cousins
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Chapel · Realm · History · Karl Barth and Christian Theology · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religion and Society Interactions
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |