Papers presented at a conference held June 22-24, 2007 in Princeton, N.J.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Historical context -- "How can an elephant understand a whale and vice versa?" : the Dutch origins of Cornelius Van Til's appraisal of Karl Barth / George Harinck -- Beyond the battle for the Bible : what evangelicals missed in Van Til's critique of Barth / D. G. Hart -- Part II. Philosophical and theological analysis -- Karl Barth, American evangelicals, and Kant / John E. Hare -- A theology of experience? : Karl Barth and the transcendental argument / Clifford B. Anderson -- Covenant, election, and Incarnation : evaluating Barth's actualist Christology / Michael S. Horton -- History in harmony : Karl Barth on the hypostatic union / Adam Neder -- The church in Karl Barth and evangelicalism : conversations across the aisle / Kimlyn J. Bender -- The being and act of the church : Barth and the future of evangelical ecclesiology / Keith L. Johnson -- So that he may be merciful to all : Karl Barth and the problem of universalism / Bruce L. McCormack -- Evangelical questioning of election in Barth : a pneumatological perspective from the Reformed heritage / Suzanne McDonald -- Part III. Contemporary trajectories -- But did it really happen? : Frei, Henry, and Barth on historical reference and critical realism / Jason A. Springs -- No comprehensive views, no final conclusions : Karl Barth, open-ended dogmatics, and the emerging church / John R. Franke -- Ontological violence and the covenant of grace : an engagement between Karl Barth and radical orthodoxy / Kevin W. Hector -- Stanley Hauerwas and Karl Barth : matters of Christology, church, and state / Todd V. Cioffi -- Afterword : reflections on Van Til's critique of Barth / Bruce L. McCormack