Dr. Hunsinger,

Thank you for the comment, and I do wish to clarify that it was not my intention to draw exclusively negative attention to your book. I referenced Goeckel’s review because it was the only journal length review I could find, though I did resonate with some of the concerns he raised in the review.

If there are other journal length reviews of “Reading Barth with Charity” currently in print I would very much enjoy reading them, and would take the opportunity to share them with others as well.

“Hunsinger demonstrates that the revisionist view of Barth offers only a partisan and historicist position that will not bring Christians together in faith in the triune God. … He demonstrates, in ways that I believe are simply irrefutable to any reasonable person reviewing the texts, that such views are definitely not Barth’s. … This book is must reading not just for Barth scholars … but for any Christian interested in understanding … divine freedom … as it is grounded in the eternal Trinity.” — Paul D. Molnar, Journal of Reformed Theology

“Lutheran teaching about the Trinity per se historically matches Hunsinger’s. … [Contrary to Barth-revisionists] traditional Lutherans have never thought of God in such voluntaristic terms as to reduce the triune life to God’s decision to become incarnate. Instead, with Nicene faith, Lutherans have always believed in the eternal nature of the triune life.” — Mark Mattes, Lutheran Quarterly

“I judge Hunsinger’s book a success and side with him in judging the revisionist interpretation of Barth to be mistaken. … Contrary to the McCormack thesis regarding Barth, God’s election of Jesus Christ does not constitute God’s being as the Trinity.” — J. Mark Beach, Dean of Students, Mid-America Reformed Seminary