Karl Barth: God Is Wholly Other

This biographical novel traces the life of Karl Barth (1886-1968), the twentieth century's most formidable Protestant theologian. Born in Basel to a pastor father, young Karl grows up restless with questions about God, studies under liberal masters in Berlin and Marburg, then serves as a village pastor in Safenwil, where his groundbreaking commentary on Romans shakes the theological world. When Hitler rises to power, Barth drafts the Barmen Declaration and is expelled from Germany for his defiance.
Back in Basel, he spends decades constructing his monumental Church Dogmatics, all while navigating a fractured private life between his devoted wife Nelly and his intimate companion Charlotte. The novel weaves together theology, history, and love, asking at what cost one man's cry-God is wholly other-was forged.