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The Analogy of Faith: Likeness to God from Faith Alone?

Gottlieb Söhngen (1892–1971) is perhaps best known in English-speaking theological circles for having supervised both Joseph Ratzinger’s doctorate and his Habilitation at the University of Munich. His other minor claim to fame might be Hans Urs von Balthasar’s occasional references to him in his 1951 book on Karl Barth. It seems, then, that Söhngen is primarily known for those he taught and influenced, not for his own contributions to fundamental and systematic theology. This unfortunate situation may be rectified somewhat by the translation into English of two seminal articles by Söhngen on analogy, which originally appeared in the journal Catholica in 1934.1 This was two years after the publication both of Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics I/1, with its notorious declaration that the analogy of being is the invention of anti-Christ, and also of Erich Przywara’s Analogia Entis, a work which we now know Barth most likely never read.2