»Magno consensu in dissensu« – die theologische Freundschaft zwischen Karl Barth und Heinrich Vogel

On the basis of their hitherto unpublished correspondence from 1930 to 1966, this essay depicts the course and the characteristics of the friendship between the reformed theologian Karl Barth and the lutheran theologian Heinrich Vogel, and discusses the differences they demonstrated in their theological methods, their understanding of baptism, eternal life and re ligious art, particularly Christian art, in spite of their fundamental consensus about the Christological foundations of all theology.