Nations and Nationalism in the Theology of Karl Barth

Karl Barth was well-known for his criticism of German nationalism as a corrupting influence on the German protestant churches in the Nazi era. Defining and recognising nationhood as distinct from the state is an important though underappreciated task in Barth''s theology. It flows out of his deep concern for the capacity for nationalist dogma - that every nation must have its own state - to promot...