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

[Todd]

Received the CD set but very disappointed in the two low quality red book cases the books are seated in. Both cases must have torn during shipment because they are cheaply constructed. For the high price of the books themselves, Continuum should have included much better quality book cases.

[Todd]

Tom,

In fact, as I look more closely at the above Preview photograph of the CD set, I note that the tan book case imprinted with the KB logo on the sides is not at all what I received in the mail. Was this a last minute production change or can I get the correct book case?

[Corstian Devos]

Hi Tom:

I am trying to register on-line to receive the free set of indexes and access to the on-line index and the link provided www.continuumbooks.com/dogmatics is not working. Help please!

[Chris Kettler]

I noticed that the prefaces (both Barth's and the editors') are not included in the new edition. Is there a reason for this?

Chris Kettler

[Kent]

Will students be able to buy individual volumes for classroom use? In other words, could I assign a subvolume as a textbook and could our University order that subvolume straight from T&T Clark?

[Tom]

Hi all,

sorry for the delay - I was away in sunny Poland for two weeks. Here are answers to your queries:

@Todd: The decision for a monochrome case was made out of production considerations after the promotion material had been produced. The cases should be stable enough, but the books are quite heavy, so perhaps the cases broke during shipment. We are happy to send you new empty boxes. Please get in touch with our customer services.

@Corstian: Link for registration is working now.

@Chris: The forewords were not included in the Study Edition. The main reason is that they mainly give outdated information on how a particular volume came together at the time. However, we will discuss this with the Princeton editors. I think the best way to deal with this will be to make them available on-line together with the indexes for the individual fascicles.

@Kent: Individual volumes won't be available before autumn 2010.

[Richard Bates]

I'm not trying to make you laugh, but if you offer Church Dogmatics for the Kindle I'll buy it in a heart beat. Of course, there would have to be a savvy way to navigate such a looooooong text, but I must say that I appreciate how the Kindle presents the words to me and gets out of my way, leaving me alone with the ideas of a book. I'll also purchase anything by T.F. Torrance.