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Center for Barth Studies

No Other Word of God

Confessing Barmen 90 Years Later

MAY 10, 2024 · Hybrid Event · Cooper Room, Erdman Center

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No Other Word of God: Confessing Barmen 90 Years Later

The Barmen Declaration, written primarily by Karl Barth in 1934, was the manifesto of the Confessing Church during the Nazi period in Germany.  Designed to prevent the capitulation of the  churches to hostile cultural forces, it has been accorded authoritative status throughout the Protestant world for its emphasis on the centrality and all-sufficiency of Christ.

This one-day hybrid event celebrates the 90th anniversary of the Barmen Declaration. Notable historians and theologians will give papers and reflections on the declaration, both for its historical significance and its meaning and relevance for  today. The event will also include a closing discussion panel.

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Speakers

Victoria Barnett

Frank Talbott, Jr. Endowed Distinguished Visiting Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Virginia

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Victoria Barnett

Victoria J. Barnett is a visiting professor at the University of Virginia and was the Frank Talbott, Jr. Endowed Visiting Professor in Jewish and Religious Studies at the University of Virginia in 2022-23. She served as the Director of the Programs on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust at the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum from 2004-2019. From 2004-2014 she was one of the general editors of the multivolume Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English Edition. She is a graduate of Indiana University, Union Theological Seminary (New York), and George Mason University. She is the author of For the Soul of the People: Protestant Protest against Hitler and Bystanders: Conscience and Complicity during the Holocaust, and the translator of several works, including Christiane Tietz, Karl Barth: A Life in Conflict (2021). She has written extensively about the history of the churches in Nazi Germany and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Her current research focuses on international interfaith and ecumenical circles during the Holocaust.

John Burgess

James Henry Snowden Professor of Systematic Theology at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary

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John Burgess

John P. Burgess (PhD, University of Chicago) is James Henry Snowden Professor of Systematic Theology at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He is the author of several books, including Holy Rus': The Rebirth of Orthodoxy in the New Russia, Encounters with Orthodoxy: How Protestant Churches Can Reform Themselves Again, and Why Scripture Matters: Reading the Bible in a Time of Church Conflict. His experience as a Fulbright Scholar to Russia and as a Luce Fellow in theology fueled his research on the role of the Russian Orthodox Church in shaping a new national identity for post-communist Russia.

Eberhard Busch

Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology, University of Göttingen, Germany

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Eberhard Busch

Eberhard Busch is Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology at the University of Göttingen, Germany. From 1965 to 1968 he was personal assistant to Karl Barth.

Raymond Carr

Research Associate and Director, “Codex Charles H. Long Papers Project,” The Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project at Harvard University

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Raymond Carr

Raymond Carr, described by Cornel West as "one of the few groundbreaking and path-blazing theologians of his generation," is an international public theologian. His research interests are theologically ecumenical, historically sensitive, and radically inclusive. Carr has recently completed a visiting professorship at Harvard Divinity School and continues as a research associate and director of the “Codex Charles H. Long Papers Project” at The Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project at Harvard University.

Karlfied Froehlich

Benjamin B. Warfield Professor Emeritus of Ecclesiastical History, Princeton Theological Seminary

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Karlfied Froehlich

Karlfried Froehlich is Benjamin B. Warfield Professor Emeritus of Ecclesiastical History at Princeton Theological Seminary. Dr. Froehlich’s main field of scholarly activity is the history of Biblical interpretation in patristic times and in the Middle Ages including a strong interest in Christian iconography. A major focus of his research has been the medieval Glossa Ordinaria of the Latin Bible. He has also taught and published on topics related to Martin Luther and Lutheranism and has been actively involved in ecumenical studies, especially through archival projects and publications concerning the work of New Testament scholar and ecumenist Oscar Cullmann (1902-1999).

Stanley Hauerwas

Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus of Divinity and Law, Divinity School at Duke University

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Stanley Hauerwas

Stanley Hauerwas is the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus of Divinity and Law at the Divinity School at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He has written a voluminous number of articles, authored and edited many books, and has been the subject of other theologians' writing and interest. He has been a board member of the Society of Christian Ethics, Associate Editor of a number of Christian journals and periodicals, and a frequent lecturer at campuses across the country.

George Hunsinger

Hazel Thompson McCord Professor of Systematic Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary

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George Hunsinger

George Hunsinger is Hazel Thompson McCord Professor of Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is author of many books including Reading Barth With Charity (Baker Academic, 2015) and co-editor with Keith Johnson of the award-winning Wiley Blackwell Companion to Karl Barth (2020).

Katherine Sonderegger

William Meade Professor of Theology at Virginia Theological Seminary

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Katherine Sonderegger

Katherine Sonderegger is the William Meade Professor of Theology at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia. She is the author of Systematic Theology volumes I&II with Fortress Press as well as That Jesus Christ Was Born a Jew: Karl Barth's "Doctrine of Israel". She resides in Alexandria, Virginia.

Moderator

Kara Slade

Associate Rector, Trinity Church in Princeton; Canon Theologian, the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey

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Kara Slade

Kara Nicole Slade is Associate Rector of Trinity Church in Princeton and Canon Theologian of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey.

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The conference will be streamed on Airmeet, where virtual attendees can not only view lectures but also participate via live chat and Q&A. In addition, the event footage will be available for viewing for a few weeks afterward. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, click the button below to register and reserve your seat on Airmeet. Attendance is free.

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We are delighted to welcome conference attendees to the Princeton Theological Seminary campus. Lectures will be held in the Cooper Room in the Erdman Center.

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Schedule

Friday, May 10, 2024

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Session
Presenter(s)

9:00AM

Opening Remarks and Welcome

President Jonathan Walton
George Hunsinger

9:30AM

Personal Reminiscences of Barmen and the
Confessing Church

Karlfried Froehlich

10:00AM

Break (with coffee and tea)

10:30AM

Lecture 1

Eberhard Busch

12:00PM

Lunch

1:30PM

Lecture 2

Victoria Barnett

3:00PM

Break (with coffee and tea)

3:30PM

Closing Panel

Raymond Carr
Stanley Hauerwas
George Hunsinger
Katherine Sonderegger
John Burgess

Steering Committee

Kaitlyn Dugan

Director, Center for Barth Studies

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Dr. Kaitlyn Dugan

Kaitlyn Dugan is the Director of the Center for Barth Studies, which involves managing the daily operations, programs, and conferences of the center as well as curating, preserving, maintaining, and developing Princeton Theological Seminary’s Barth Special Research Collection. She is grant co-author for the $300,000 Scholarly Editions and Scholarly Translations grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities to the Karl Barth Translator’s Seminar in 2019. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy and political science from Taylor University, a Master of Arts in theology from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary, and received her PhD in systematic theology from the University of Aberdeen in June 2022. Her dissertation research focuses on developing a constructive theological account of death informed by Pauline apocalyptic theology and is titled “The Enduring Enemy: Towards An Apocalyptic Theology of Death.” She is currently working towards publishing her dissertation. Kaitlyn is a member of St. James Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) in Harlem, New York City.

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George Hunsinger

Hazel Thompson McCord Professor of Systematic Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary

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George Hunsinger

George Hunsinger is Hazel Thompson McCord Professor of Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is author of many books such as Disruptive Grace: Studies in the Theology of Karl Barth (2000) and How to Read Karl Barth: The Shape of His Theology (1991).

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