Bruce L. McCormack
Dr. Bruce L. McCormack received his Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary and is currently the Frederick and Margaret L. Weyerhaeuser Professor of Systematic Theology at Princeton. He feels that his most significant contribution to his field can be found in his book Karl Barth's Critically Realistic Dialectical Theology: Its Genesis and Development, 1909–1936. In 1998, due to the significance of this text, he became the first American to be awarded the Karl Barth Prize by the Board of the Evangelical Church of the Union in Germany. "This particular volume offers a genetic-historical treatment of Barth's development that seeks to locate Barth's theology in the stream of late-nineteenth-century developments in theology and philosophy," he says. "What emerges is the contention that Barth's theology is best understood as a distinctive variant of modern theology, i.e., as a critically realistic dialectical theology." As part of his research, Dr. McCormack spent a year on a Fulbright/Swiss Government grant at the Barth Archives in Basel, where he had access to many of the Swiss theologian's unpublished lectures. He hopes to make equally significant contributions as a teacher.
(As of Summer 2005 printing)