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| Princeton Theological Seminary and T&T Clark/Continuum Announce Cooperation in the Publication of the Digitized Edition of Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics Princeton, NJ, May 16, 2008–Princeton Theological Seminary and T&T Clark/Continuum announce the publication of a revised and digitized edition of Karl Barth’s Church “Students, scholars, and pastors will welcome the arrival of a digital version of the Church Dogmatics,” said Clifford Anderson, curator of special collections and member of the advisory committee for the Center for Barth Studies at Princeton Seminary. “It has been our longtime goal to bring Karl Barth’s masterpiece into the digital age.” The Swiss-German theologian Karl Barth (1886–1968) was the most original and significant Reformed theologian of the twentieth century. He was one of the central figures in the Confessing Church in Germany, which opposed the Nazi Regime. Barth began the Church Dogmatics in 1932 and continued working on its thirteen volumes until the end of his life. Barth’s writings continue to guide and instruct the preaching and teaching of pastors and academics worldwide. Princeton Theological Seminary produced the digitized text of the Church Dogmatics with the assistance of a generous grant from the Lilly Endowment, Inc. Care was taken to ensure that the digital text allow scholars to perform searches not only on individual words and phrases, but also on biblical texts and citations. English translations of Barth’s Greek and Latin phrases, left untranslated in the print edition, have now been incorporated into the text and are presented alongside the original, relieving students of the need to read the text with dictionaries at hand. After completing the digitizing of the full work, Princeton Theological Seminary will continue to maintain and update the electronic text of the classic translation edited by Geoffrey Bromiley of Fuller Theological Seminary and the late Thomas F. Torrance of Edinburgh University. “T&T Clark retain copyright of the classic text produced under the editorial supervision of my father Thomas F. Torrance and Geoffrey Bromiley,” said Iain Torrance, president of Princeton Theological Seminary, “but translation projects of this magnitude evolve, and Princeton Seminary has now established copyright of the electronic form of the translation, which it regards as a ‘living text’ that will be revised and corrected by new generations of Barth scholars.” This new version of the Church Dogmatics will be made available in three ways:
For more information, contact the Communications/Publications Office at 609.497.7760 or visit www.ptsem.edu. Princeton Theological Seminary was founded in 1812 as the first seminary established by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. It is the largest Presbyterian seminary in the country, with more than 700 students in seven graduate degree programs. ------30------ |
Dogmatics, arguably the greatest theological work of the twentieth century. This agreement will make it possible for the first time to query and search the nearly 8,000 pages of the Church Dogmatics. | |