Thanks for a clear narration of this "polyamorous" marriage. However, Barth is not an American evangelical by any stretch, and they tend to cast him into their outer darkness. He had an outside influence on a number of Roman Catholic theologians, as well as many Reformed and Anglican thinkers.

In seminary in the early 80s, I learned of his two wives, which was scandalizing a lot of people in Basel then. Now the focus is on Charlotte's influence in his work…