Title: Strong Exegesis, Weakly Organized
Product review: John McTavish and Harold Wells have performed a great service in collecting some of the most exciting "small print" exgetical passages from Karl Barth's "Church Dogmatics" into this compact, paperback volume. Barth's insights into Scripture are still fresh and clear, illuminating the thread running throughout the Bible -- Jesus Christ, God's Word incarnate -- in stunning ways. Unfortunately, the volume suffers from a lack of any indices (such as the topical and biblical indices found in the "Domgatics" themselves). The volume's title is also misleading; preachers expecting to find a series of passages keyed to the Revised Common Lectionary will be disappointed. The book is only very loosely arranged according to the seasons of the ecclesiastical calendar. Barth's work is strong, but the editors' oversights limits the practical usefulness of this volume.
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