In this issue, the main topic of the Academia column is the theology of religion by the Swiss theologian Karl Barth (1886-1968). His peculiar Christian approach to the phenomenon of religion, which is conditioned by a reaction to the rationalism and progressive views of liberal Protestantism, is a reproduction - on a new level-of the traditional motives of Calvinist theology. In the fragments of Ecclesiastical Dogmatics translated into Russian for the first time, Karl Barth presents his ideas about the relationship between Christian revelation and religion (i.e., natural human religiosity, by which Barth meant such phenomena that are common to all cultures, in his opinion, as belief in a supreme Being (s), rituals associated with worship According to Barth, the Christian religion is a true religion, but it is not such in itself, but only in so far as it is "lifted up" by revelation, which, as it were, "lifts" it, taking it into itself. page 213The SWISS theologian Karl Barth (1886 - 1968) is undoubtedly one of the most influential theologians of the 20th century. This is evident at least from the fact that it was he who was at the origin of the so - called "neo - Orthodoxy", a movement that seriously displaced liberal theology, which in the late 19th and early 20th centuries seemed to many to be the only possible and non-alternative direction in Protestant (and even more broadly, Christian) theological thought. At the same time, it would be wrong to think that Bart's work belongs exclusively to the past. On the contrary, as B. McCormack, a well-known researcher of Barth's literary legacy, points out, the United States is currently experiencing a kind of "Barthian Renaissance", which may be one of the factors determining the future of Protestant theology in North America.1At the same time, almost all researchers note that Bart's work is rather poorly studied, and, in addition, it is very often misinterpreted. One of the cases of such distortion is the concept attribu ... Read more