ARTICLES: THE SERVICE OF THEOLOGY: BARTH ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PREACHING AND DOGMATICS.

Theology has a reputation for being a highly abstract, overly intellectual, and largely irrelevant disciple that distracts Christians from the actual living out of their faith, perhaps epitomised in Karl Barth's 8000-page magnum opus, the Church Dogmatics. However, Barth himself envisioned his theology as something that served the church, in particular, the task of preaching. This article explores Barth's vision of how theology serves proclamation before considering how Barth himself called on the assistance of his own doctrine of sanctification to preach an Easter sermon in Basel Prison. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]