ABSTRACT
In the early remarks the hermeneutics which the Church Dogmatics went on to develop and which underlies its scriptural interpretation is in essentials already present. Barth shares with historical-critical exegesis, In such statements this is of course condensed into a homogeneous entity more that it was and is in reality. Conservatives like to find their theology endorsed in the complete, or, historicity of the biblical accounts; the other side proceeds in the opposite direction. This is the most radical biblical scholarship, pursued so that the author can get rid of it. According to Barth, reformation theology had no need of this because it still had the courage not to avoid the offence of revelation, and therefore simply did not raise the question about a historically detectable central point in the gospel. The confusion about this which still largely prevails today is less excusable than that aroused by the Epistle to the Romans at the time.
