Daniel M. Griswold serves as pastor of Trinity Reformed Church in Rochester, New York. He has taught theology at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan; Perkins School of Theology in Dallas, Texas; and Austin College in Sherman, Texas. This volume is based on a dissertation completed at Southern Methodist University
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"With refreshing clarity, patience, and deep insight, Daniel Griswold has explored Karl Barth's theological uses of the concepts of time and eternity in ways that open up new possibilities for our understanding. Applying a variety of newer conceptual resources to the analysis of Barth's work in its historical and doctrinal contexts, he has produced an interpretation and proposal that will be of value not only to Barth studies but also to contemporary theological engagement with the issues." Charles M. Wood Emeritus, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University "In this careful and comprehensive work, pastor and scholar Dan Griswold explores the complicated question of God's relationship to time. Karl Barth, he argues, offers a rich perspective on time and eternity that has often been oversimplified, by critics and admirers alike. To address this problem, Griswold situates Barth in the context of the particular historical tradition that shaped his understanding of time and eternity, his own development over time, and the philosophical debates on time and eternity since Barth. Throughout, Griswold shows how Barth engages the wider tradition even as he makes his own distinctive contribution: understanding God's eternality in thoroughly Trinitarian terms. A remarkable and fresh contribution to Barth studies today!" Martha Moore-Keish Columbia Theological Seminary "This is the clearest, most comprehensive theological treatment of time and eternity - one of the most complex sets of themes in Karl Barth's theology but also in all Christian theology - to be written in years. Carefully working through the sources and the history of interpretation, both ancient and modern, Daniel Griswold has done us all a great favor by clarifying many vexing questions, answering many clever critics, and explicating a doctrine that impinges upon most every other doctrine in the theological encyclopedia." Richard Burnett Erskine Theological Seminary