ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the pneumatological framework of Barth's early theology antecedent to the Church Dogmatics (CD). This is important for two reasons. First, increased scholarly attention to continuities between the early and later Barth force his interpreters to realize that the theology of the CD cannot be considered in isolation from Barth's earlier thought. Second, an understanding of Barth's first dogmatic investigations on the doctrine of the filioque is important because it illuminates how he sought to deal with the filioque from a reference point within the doctrine of Revelation rather than primarily as a problem of the doctrine of God as classically understood. The Gttingen Dogmatics was selected because it is Barth's first formal dogmatic work. The chapter concludes by pointing out how Barth's initial thinking on the filioque from the perspective of his doctrine of Revelation placed undue restrictions on Barth's pneumatology which he only realized and began to overcome some years later.
