ABSTRACT
This chapter then shows that this analogia pulchritudinis was no mere passing fancy for Barth continues to affirm the major tenets of it throughout the remainder of his career. In Church Dogmatics IV/3.2 (1959) and Evangelical Theology (1962), Barth briefly reaffirms his belief that the ratio veritatis has beauty and so theological discourse must, like a pleasing portrait of it, have similar elegance. And in Church Dogmatics III/1 (1945) and Church Dogmatics IV/3.1 (1959), Barth reiterates his longstanding conviction that the beauty of the world and the truths of aesthetics may be summoned by God’s grace to bear witness to Him.
