Imprimatur: Church Dogmatics at the printers!

   

Good news for all who have pre-ordered the new Study Edition of the Church Dogmatics. And even better news for all who have been working on this for the last years... 

Today we have sent the last pdf (fascicle 31 - the General Index) off to the printers! This means we will be out in early April

To whet your appetites, here is the foreword to the new Study Edition:

Since the publication of the first English translation of Church Dogmatics I.1 by Professor Thomson in 1936, T&T Clark has been closely linked with Karl Barth. An authorised translation of the whole of the Kirchliche Dogmatik was begun in the 1950s under the editoriship of G. W. Bromiley and T. F. Torrance, a work which eventually replaced Professor Thomson’s initial translation of CD I.1.

T&T Clark is now happy to present to the academic community this new Study Edition of the complete Church Dogmatics. Its aim is mainly to make this major work available to a generation of students and scholars with less familiarity with Latin, Greek, and French. For the first time this edition therefore presents the classic text of the translation edited by G. W. Bromiley and T. F. Torrance incorporating translations of the foreign language passages in Editorial Notes on each page. The main body of the text remains unchanged. Only minor corrections with regard to grammar or spelling have been introduced. The text is presented in a new reader friendly format. We hope that the breakdown of the Church Dogmatics into 31 shorter fascicles will make this edition easier to use than its predecessors.

The General Index (fascicle 31) has been revised incorporating the work by Frank McCombie. The indices of biblical references and names have been completely replaced and many corrections for the other indices have been incorporated.

The publishers would like to thank the Center for Barth Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary for supplying a digital edition of the text of the Church Dogmatics and translations of the Greek and Latin quotations in the original T & T Clark edition made by Simon Gathercole and Ian McFarland.

Comments

[WTM]

Great news, Tom! Did you end up keeping reference to page numbers in the old edition?

[Tom Kraft]

Hi WTM,

thanks! Yes, page numbers of the old edition are kept in square brackets in the margins. After discussing this matter with the Barth Center at Princeton, they suggested that for the time being all scholars using the new Study Edition should still refer to the pagination of the Classic 14 volume set in order to avoid confusion. I think this makes sense.

Also, the (revised and updated) General Index volume still uses the old system of referencing volume and page (eg. CD III.2, p 420). The Index can therefore be used with the classic 14 volume edition as well as with this new Study Edition in 31 fascicles.

[Chris T]

Will T&T Clark be working on making the new CD available on the Amazon Kindle or other ebook readers? There's a lot of good theology available for the Kindle already, and lots of folks are migrating to that platform. Would love to see more Barth available on the Kindle!

[Tom]

Hi Fr Chris,

Barth on Kindle. Horribile dictu! This actually made me laugh!

We will certainly look into this. BTW The new version of the Church Dogs is already available electronically as a CDROM from Logos and as part of the Digital Karl Barth Library from Alexander Street Press.

[Tom]

I have checked with the relevant people: We are an active partner of the Amazon Kindle program and have started selecting titles for Kindle. Currently we are concentrating on backlist and "trade" titles and have not yet made a final decision about the academic list. We will do this in due course.

[Mark Knight]

Any plans to make CD available for Accordance on the Mac?

[Halden]

I'm a little curious about what the deal is with Eisenbraums offering this set. Do they do some distribution for T&T in the US or something? And I still don't know how they were able to run that 55% off special a while back. Thank God I got mine preordered then.

[Tom]

@Mark
No plans so far.

@Halden
Eisenbrauns sell our books but are not an "official distributor" as we have our own distribution in the US.

Cheers
Tom

[Chris Kettler]

Will individuals volumes be for sale by this summer?

Chris Kettler

[Tom]

Hi Chris,

the individua volumes won't be available before autumn 2010.

Best
Tom