The story below concerning Karl Barth illustrates this issue. It is actually one of the most endearing stories from Bruce McCormack's seminal work, Karl Barth's Critically Realistic Dialectical Theology: Its Genesis and Development, 1909-1936.
Barth was not the first choice as speaker....those who did not know him thought of him as a follower of Leonhard Ragaz...
A more unsuitable choice for a speaker at a Religious Socialist Conference could scarcely have been found. The people gathered at Trambach had come to hear an explanation of Religious Socialisms; what they received was a sustained assault on its foundational principles.Bruce McCormack, p. 196
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