Download or read book Barth and Schleiermacher on the Doctrine of Election written by Matthias Gockel and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new interpretation of the two most important Protestant theologians in the 19th and 20th century, Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834) and Karl Barth (1886-1968). Matthias Gockel focuses on the doctrine of election or predestination, and shows that Schleiermacher's original approach to this was taken one step further by Barth.