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Karl Barth's attitude to Judaism has been variously interpreted, sometimes negatively. Mark R. Lindsay in his first book, Covenanted solidarity, looked at Barth's views up to 1948. In this clear, balanced analysis of Barth's attitude after that date, he considers whether his views were affected by the Holocaust. After an initial chapter setting Barth's writing in the context of post-World War II developments in Jewish-Christian relationships, he considers Barth's famous Nein! to the possibility of learning about God through the occurrences of ordinary human history. Lindsay argues that whilst it was an understandable reaction to Hitler's propaganda that he was an instrument of providence, this did not mean that in principle nothing about divine purpose could be learned from the course of ordinary...