Karl Barth And Christian Ethics

Author : Karl Barth
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498270731

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Ethics by Karl Barth Pdf

Originally published in German in an edition edited by Dietrich Braun, Karl Barth's Ethics is at last available in English. This volume, containing lectures given as courses at the University at Munster in 1928 and 1929, represents Barth's first systematic attempt at a theological account of Christian ethics. Although composed over fifty years ago, just prior to Barth's thirty-year devotion to Church Dogmatics, many of its themes, problems, and conclusions are astonishingly relevant today (his critique of competitiveness and of technology, for example). While this work is concerned with the foundations of ethics, it also reveals Barth's highly practical interest in ethics and his special concern to avoid legalism and yet to maintain a structured divine command. Barth's ethics are arranged on a Trinitarian basis, dealing in succession with the command of God the Creator (life), the command of God the Reconciler (law), and the command of God the Redeemer (promise).

Author : Robert E. Willis
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Ethics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Ethics of Karl Barth by Robert E. Willis Pdf

Author : William Werpehowski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317109600

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Karl Barth and Christian Ethics by William Werpehowski Pdf

This critical study of Karl Barth's Christian theological ethics discusses Barth's controversial and characteristically misunderstood ethics of divine command. The surprising relation of his 'divine command ethics' to contemporary 'narrative theology' and 'virtue ethics' and specific moral themes concerning bonds between parents and children, the nature of truth telling, and the meaning of Christian love of God and neighbor are all discussed. This book reveals Barth's richness, depth, and insight, and places his work in constructive connection with salient themes in both Catholic and Protestant ethics. Attentive to the fullness of Barth's Christological vision and to the purposes and limits of his reflections on the Christian life in pursuit of the good, William Werpehowski also advances conversations in Christian ethics about the nature of practical deliberation and decision, the orientation and dispositions that embody moral faithfulness, and the question and features of 'natural morality.'

Author : Gerald McKenny
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199582679

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The Analogy of Grace by Gerald McKenny Pdf

A comprehensive treatment of Karl Barth's ethics, offering a thorough account of the development of Barth's ethical thought and a wide-ranging analysis of its chief concepts and arguments. McKenny explores the ways in which Barth's position engages the traditions of Christian ethics and modern continental moral thought.

Author : John Webster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1995-06-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 052147499X

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Barth's Ethics of Reconciliation by John Webster Pdf

A major scholarly treatment of Karl Barth's ethics of reconciliation.

Author : Nigel Biggar
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Christian ethics
ISBN : 9780198264576

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The Hastening that Waits by Nigel Biggar Pdf

This book offers a fresh and up-to-date account of the ethical thought of one of the twentieth century's greatest theologians: Karl Barth. The author seeks to recover Barth's ethics from some widespread misunderstandings, and also presents a picture of them as a whole. Drawing on recently published sources, Dr Biggar construes the ethics of the Church Dogmatics as it might have been had Barth lived to complete it - not only separately in each of its three constituent dimensions but also in its dynamic, coinherent integrity. However, The Hastening that Waits is more than apology and description. For it recommends to contemporary Christian ethics the theological rigour with which Barth expounds the good life in terms of the living presence of God-in-Christ to his creatures; his conception of right human action as that which is able to hasten in the service of humanity precisely by waiting prayerfully upon God; and his discriminate openness to moral wisdom outside of the Christian church. Among the particular topics treated are: the concepts of human freedom and of created moral order; moral norms and their relation to individual vocation; the relative ethical roles of the Bible, the Church, philosophy, and empirical science; moral character and its formation; and the problem of war.

Author : Karl Barth
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664253253

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The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life by Karl Barth Pdf

In a rare volume, Barth presents his lecture on "The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life", in which he insists there is no way to get behind or beyond the fact that God is revealed to us in three distinct ways, yet with a unity that cannot be divided.

Author : David Haddorff
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621891024

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Christian Ethics as Witness by David Haddorff Pdf

Christian ethics is less a system of principles, rules, or even virtues, and more of a free and open-ended responsible witness to God's gracious action to be with and for others and the world. Postmodernity has left us with the risky uncertainty of knowing and doing the good. It also leaves us with the global risks of political violence and terrorism, economic globalization and financial crisis, and environmental destruction and global climate change. How should Christians respond to these problems? This book creatively explores how Christian ethics is best understood a witness to God's action, thereby providing the ethical framework for addressing the various problematic social issues that put our world at risk. Haddorff develops the notion of witness through a detailed study of Karl Barth's theological ethics. Barth, he argues, provides a language enabling us to know what a Christian ethics of witness actually looks like in both theory and in practice. In correspondence to God's gracious action, Christians remain free to think and act in faith, hope, and love in respondence to their unique circumstances, even in a world at risk. In their witness, Christians remain confident that God has not abandoned the world but loves and cares for its future.

Author : Gerald McKenny
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192660299

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Karl Barth's Moral Thought by Gerald McKenny Pdf

Does theological ethics articulate moral norms with the assistance of moral philosophy? Or does it leave that task to moral philosophy alone while it describes a distinctively Christian way of acting or form of life? These questions lie at the very heart of theological ethics as a discipline. Karl Barth's theological ethics makes a strong case for the first alternative. Karl Barth's Moral Thought follows Barth's efforts to present God's grace as a moral norm in his treatments of divine commands, moral reasoning, responsibility, and agency. It shows how Barth's conviction that grace is the norm of human action generates problems for his ethics at nearly every turn, as it involves a moral good that confronts human beings from outside rather than perfecting them as the kind of creature they are. Yet it defends Barth's insistence on the right of theology to articulate moral norms, and it shows how Barth may lead theological ethics to exercise that right in a more compelling way than he did.

Author : Alexander Massmann
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506401461

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Citizenship in Heaven and on Earth by Alexander Massmann Pdf

While Karl Barth is one of the most significant theologians of the twentieth century, his contribution to ethics is less well known and subject to controversy among interpreters. Barth combined his commitment to the church and its particular task in faith and theology with a concern for ethics and politics in wider society. By examining the historical development of Barth’s ethics, this study traces the vital influences and considerable shifts in Barth’s understanding of the ethical task, situating him within his political context. Alexander Massmann provides a comprehensive explication and assessment of the full scope of Barth’s ethics, from the first edition of the Romans commentary to the final volume of the Church Dogmatics. General questions of Barth’s methodology in ethics and case studies in applied ethics are both analyzed in their intricate connection to his dogmatic thought. The study highlights how an ethical approach emerged in which the freedom of the gospel allows for considerable openness to empirical insights from other disciplines. The author reevaluates Barth’s ethics in a constructive vision of the role of the church in the quest for a just society.

Author : Paul T. Nimmo
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567195418

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Being in Action by Paul T. Nimmo Pdf

This book investigates the way in which the 'actualistic ontology' - i.e., the fact that God and human agents are beings-in-act in a covenant relationship - that underlies the Church Dogmatics of Karl Barth affects his conception of ethical agency. It analyses this effect along three paths of inquiry: knowing what is right (the noetic dimension), doing what is right (the ontic dimension), and achieving what is right (the telic dimension). The first section of the book explores the discipline of theological ethics as Barth construes it, both in its theoretical status and in its actual practice. In the second section, the ontological import of ethical agency for Barth is considered in relation to the divine action and the divine command. The final section of the book examines the teleological purpose envisaged in this theological ethics in terms of participation, witness, and glorification. At each stage of the book, the strong interconnectedness of theological ethics and actualistic ontology in the Church Dogmatics is drawn out. The resultant appreciation of the actualistic dimension which underlies the theological ethics of Karl Barth feeds into a fruitful engagement with a variety of critiques of Barth's conception of ethical agency. It is demonstrated that resources can be found within this actualistic ontology to answer some of the diverse criticisms, and that attempts to revise Barth's theological ethics at the margins would have catastrophic and irreversible consequences for his whole theological project.

Author : Gary W. Deddo
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015053169572

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Karl Barth's Theology of Relations by Gary W. Deddo Pdf

A detailed study of how theologian Karl Barth (1886-1968) comprehended the connections between the Christian doctrine of God, the doctrine of humanity, and Christian ethics, a triad of concepts that the author refers to as Barth's theology of relations. He examines Barth's writings on parents and children to discuss Barth's ethics generally, and argues for the relevance of Barth's theology of relations to contemporary family issues. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Daniel L. Migliore
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802865700

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Commanding Grace by Daniel L. Migliore Pdf

In this seminal volume, contemporary theologians revisit the theological ethics of Karl Barth as it bears on such topics as the moral significance of Jesus Christ, the Christian as ethical agent, the just war theory, the relationship between doctrines of the atonement and modern penal justice systems, the virtues and limits of democracy, and the difference between an economy of competition and possession and an economy of grace. Book jacket.

Author : Matthew Rose
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317141099

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Ethics with Barth: God, Metaphysics and Morals by Matthew Rose Pdf

Although interest in the theology of Karl Barth is greater today than at any time since his death, Barth's moral thought continues to be widely misunderstood. This groundbreaking study of the twentieth-century's most important Christian thinker offers the first treatment of Barth's ethics from a Roman Catholic perspective. Focusing particularly on Barth's 'ethics of creation' in the Church Dogmatics, Rose reclaims Barth from a number of misinterpretations and presents Barth's account of the good life within his distinctively Christian metaphysics. Among the most provocative of Rose's claims is that Barth sees the Christian life as guided by reason and nature, an interpretation that finds Barth in conversation with ancient and medieval ethical theories about the nature of human happiness. A significant contribution to Barth studies and current debates in contemporary Christian theology, Ethics with Barth sheds valuable light on the connection between metaphysics and ethics, the trinitarian dimensions of Christian moral thought, the nature of the divine good, the role of Christian philosophy, Barth's conception of moral reasoning, and his views on eudaimonism and the natural law.

Author : John Howard Yoder
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781592443574

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Karl Barth and the Problem of War, and Other Essays on Barth by John Howard Yoder Pdf

A passionate opponent of Nazism, Karl Barth was required to serve in the Swiss army. At the age of 54, he helped guard the Swiss border at Basel from German intruders. Some would suggest this is all we need to know in order to understand Barth's views on Christianity and war. John Howard Yoder begged to differ. Karl Barth and the Problem of War is an essay in which Yoder articulates the views of his former teacher on war, these views comprising a position he refers to as chastened non-pacifism. Through a rigorous examination of Barth's ethical method, Yoder seeks to show how the logic of Barth's basic theological commitments makes him even closer to pacifism than is often noticed. Here five additional essays, three of which have never before been published, join this long essay. These essays offer further reflections on Barth's chastened non-pacifism, as well as offering some of Yoder's fruitful use of Barth's theology for social ethics.