ABSTRACT
The emphasis on modernity and on the critical attitude can be accepted as characteristic of liberal theology. There is a rumour which has been for some time that Karl Barth was vehemently opposed to liberal theology. Barth adopted the Trinitarian scheme he did, speaking of the Trinity as Creator, Reconciler and Redeemer, because of his conviction that theology had to embody a thoroughgoing commitment to eschatology. Barth praises many of the positives of liberal theology - courage, openness, exploration. Barth's road allowed him, he said, to keep liberal theology in view as it travelled its own road, to accompany it in sympathetic comradeship. Barth recommended that anyone attracted to liberal theology should begin with a close look at Kierkegaard, 'possibly the last word of anthropocentric theology'. Barth's project, as he developed it in the 1920s, was to develop a theology which was equal in weight and seriousness to Friedrich Schleiermacher's.
