Barth and Dostoevsky #A75634

A STUDY OF THE INFLUENCE OF FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF KARL BARTH (1915-1922) BY Paul H. Brazier A work of historic and systematic theology, Brazier examines the influence of Dostoevksy on Barth. Brazier's study explicates first, the reading of Dostoevsky by Barth 1915-16 and the influence on his understanding of sin and grace. Secondly a study of Barth's friend and colleague Eduard Thurneysen who influenced Barth's appropriation of Dostoyevsky; third, Barth's illustrative use of Dostoevsky, around 1918-21, the period of the rewriting of his seminal commentary on Romans.