Drawing on the English and German language scholarship to date, this book offers a novel interpretation of Barth's mature Christology. It provides a nuanced analysis of Barth's treatment of "the Chalcedonian Definition", the enhypostasis/anhypostasis pairing, and various Protestant scholastic Christological distinctions. In this well-researched book, Edward Short shows how Newman, far from being the self-absorbed introvert as some have claimed, had a wide circle of friends who benefited from his extraordinary powers of empathy. Newman and his Contemporaries is a useful introduction to this essential quality of the man and will send readers back not only to Newman's published works but to his wonderful letters.