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Karl Barth on the Filioque
y own interest in the history and doctrine of the filioque spans nearly a decade and a half prior to writing this book. The initial impetus for studying the filioque controversy first arose for me in 1994 in a historical theology class taken at Briercrest Seminary under Dr Bruce Hindmarsh, who encouraged me to pursue the topic. It was as I researched and wrote a paper on the ante-Nicene precedents to Augustine’s doctrine of the “double procession of the Spirit” that I became aware of Karl Barth’s twentieth-century defense of the filioque. I found this intriguing, not least because it meant for me that the filioque controversy was far from being a quaint ancient theological problem without any current importance. My interest in Karl Barth’s work grew steadily from there, and I eventually completed a doctoral dissertation in 2006 on Karl Barth’s doctrine of the filioque under the careful scrutiny and brilliant supervision of Professor Douglas Farrow at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. This book is a revision and update of that dissertation. Thus, I extend my sincere gratitude for the crucial roles that Dr Hindmarsh and Dr Farrow played in my own theological development over the past decade and a half.
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