A work of historic and systematic theology Bath and Dostoevsky examines the influence of Dostoevsky on Barth. Brazier's study explicates: first, the reading of Dostoevsky by barth 1915-16, and the influence on his understanding of sin and grace; second, a study of Barth's friend and colleague Eduard Thurneysen who influenced Barth's appropriation of Dostoyevsky; third, Barth's illustrative use of Dostoevsky, around 1918-21, the period of the rewriting of his seminal commentary on Romans.