ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in this book. The book considers Barth's extended excursus on the existence and nature of radical evil, and argues that although it was written after the Shoah, there is no material engagement with that particular cataclysm. It suggests that Barth was both interested and involved in principled dialogue with Jewish contemporaries, and that he regarded Christian Jewish conversation as fundamentally ingredient to the very being of the Church. He was deeply committed to the necessary Jewishness of Jesus, and to the covenantal bond of grace that binds both Israel and the Church to God and to each other. Rather, the absence of the Holocaust as a dominant theme within Barth's doctrine of evil is more appropriately explained by his resistance to any form of natural theology.
