Barth on Mondays: What I'm Doing

So I have recently bought a set of Barth's Kirchliche Dogmatik, thanks to my wonderful wife who found a quite inexpensive used copy. Although I'm not a Barthian, I am a fan of many things in Barth; like it or not he's one of the most influential theologians of the 20th century.

A popular thing that I have seen online is the attempt to blog through Barth's 10,000+ page work, so, hey, why not. I'm going to give it a shot. I have read large chunks of several of the volumes for other projects, so I'm going to give it a go systematically. Ideally, I should then be updating every Monday with my thoughts on the section of Barth that I have read. These will be thoughts, impressions, and connections that pop into my head, not a well-researched attempt at Barth-interpretation. Feel free to disagree, in fact, please do so in the comments.

I'm not using the translation, so I will either refer to what he says in paraphrase with my own translation for this blog, or quote in German. I will try to avoid the latter, in order to not exclude anyone.

Let's see how this works...