On December 10, 2018, the fiftieth anniversary of Karl Barth's death will be commemorated. However, his theology is by no means a thing of the past: it extends far beyond the 20th century. Barth understood that theology cannot compete with modern sciences. Thus, he replaced desperate attempts at plausibility with a fictional counter-narrative, in great freedom and boldness. This counter-narrative is timeless and yet contemporary. When Barth transformed theology into expressionist literature in his "Epistle to the Romans," he was more avant-garde than the cultural Protestants. And when he began his "Church Dogmatics" a decade and a half later, he was more modern than the literary modernists. Ralf Frisch interprets the "Church Dogmatics" in his bold, brilliantly written book as theological science fiction, based on the question of Barth.