In association with the Theologischer Verlag Zürich (TVZ) and Princeton Theological Seminary, Alexander Street Press is pleased to offer students and scholars this unprecedented digital resource. Combining comprehensiveness with a carefully crafted set of text-analysis tools, The Digital Karl Barth Library will support innovative research into the works of one of the twentieth century's most influential theologians.

The collection features the entire corpus of Barth's Gesamtausgabe. Published under the TVZ imprint, this definitive edition of Barth's works in German currently comprises more than 40 volumes of sermons, letters, lectures, conversations, and academic writings. Also slated for inclusion in The Digital Karl Barth Library is Barth's magnum opus, the 14-volume Kirchliche Dogmatik. These works have been made available to Alexander Street Press through a special licensing arrangement with the TVZ.

The origins of the project date to a grant awarded to Princeton Theological Seminary in 2000 by the Lilly Endowment, Inc. for the purpose of preserving and compiling the works of Karl Barth. Working closely with the TVZ, Princeton Theological Seminary used the grant to digitize many of the texts that are now being made available on the Alexander Street Press platform.

Every document in The Digital Karl Barth Library is hand-keyed and features metadata tagging specifically designed to meet the research needs of religious-studies scholars. The same dedication to scholarly research has guided the development of Alexander Street's search and presentation platform, which enables users to perform highly sophisticated searches and to view, organize, and analyze results with extraordinary speed and precision. For example, researchers can return comprehensive, accurate results in seconds for the following kinds of queries:

• Find all references to Hitler in Barth's letters;
• In Barth's academic writings, identify words that occur most frequently in close proximity with the keyword λογος;
• Locate instances where Barth discusses tribulation and suffering in his sermons;
• Searching all Barth's works, find all citations of Romans, chapter one.

Our goal is to provide resources that open new avenues of research for the next generation of scholars. We welcome your comments and suggestions as we strive to accomplish that goal.

Niklaus Peter studied theology in Basel, Berlin, and Princeton. Having written his Ph.D. thesis on Franz Overbeck, he has since published numerous articles on the theologian and has served as co-editor of Franz Overbeck: Werke und Nachlass. Dr. Peter has held positions as Lecturer on the History of Theology at the University of Basel and as Chaplain at the University of Bern. From 2000 to 2004 he was Director of the Theologischer Verlag Zürich. A member of the Karl Barth Foundation, Dr. Peter co-edits and contributes to the journal Reformatio and writes for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. He has been pastor of Zürich's Fraumünster Church since 2004.

Hans-Anton Drewes studied theology in Bonn, Zürich, and Tübingen, where he received his Ph.D. in 1979. Dr. Drewes has worked as a Research Associate at the Institute for Hermeneutics of the Faculty of Protestant Theology at the University of Tübingen and as an editor of the journal Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche. The editor of multiple volumes of Karl Barth's Gesamtausgabe, he has served as the Director of the Karl Barth Archive in Basel since 1997.

Clifford B. Anderson is the Curator of Special Collections at Princeton Theological Seminary. He received his M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School and his Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from Princeton Theological Seminary. He has published articles about Karl Barth in such journals as American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, Cultural Encounters, and Zeitschrift für dialektische Theologie.

This release of The Digital Karl Barth Library features features Die kirchliche Dogmatik and its translation in English, The Church Dogmatics, in their entirety. Also included are volumes 1-45 of Barth's Gesamtausgabe, seven additional works in German, and English translations of thirteen important texts by Barth.