The Trial of the Witnesses: The Rise and Decline of Postliberal Theology

A good portion of the book is spent developing this critique and, while interesting, it is not the most significant element in the work: that distinction belongs to DeHart's constructive proposal, one which offers a vision for a chastened, yet resilient, liberal theology. DeHart, by contrast, portrays Barth as so unwilling to give any real independence to 'generally accepted concepts' that his theology may actually be 'a disguised version of Type Five' (p. 223), a theology in which external discourses are given no place at all in Christian self-description. [...]Frei's distance from Type Five turns into distance from Barth as well.