Karl Barth S Christological Ecclesiology

Author : Kimlyn J. Bender
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351924344

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Karl Barth's Christological Ecclesiology by Kimlyn J. Bender Pdf

Many of Barth's theological themes, such as revelation and election, have received numerous scholarly examinations, whilst Barth's doctrine of the church has been largely ignored. Yet, Barth entitled his massive systematic theological opus the Church Dogmatics, and the church was a central element of his thought from first to last. This book seeks to fill a lacuna in studies of Barth's theology, presenting the first comprehensive examination of Karl Barth's doctrine of the church in over three decades. Kimlyn Bender examines Barth's ecclesiological thought, from his early theological treatises to his massive unfinished dogmatics, in light of his interaction with both Roman Catholicism and Protestant Liberalism. A special emphasis is placed upon Barth's mature ecclesiology in the Church Dogmatics.

Author : John Yocum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351942010

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Ecclesial Mediation in Karl Barth by John Yocum Pdf

Karl Barth is widely considered the greatest theologian of the Twentieth Century, exerting a major influence in almost every area of theological thought in both Reformation and Roman Catholic traditions. Ecclesial Mediation in Karl Barth deals with one of the most important and controversial themes in Barth's theology, the relation between divine and human action. John Yocum argues that Barth's late rejection of the concept of sacrament, explicated in the final volume of his Church Dogmatics, is not only at odds with his account of the nature and importance of sacraments presented earlier in the Church Dogmatics but subverts important elements of his theology as a whole especially the mediation of divine grace in preaching and the Bible. Bringing Barth into fruitful dialogue with Yves Congar, Yocum contends that the notion of sacrament is crucial to an account of the divine-human relation that respects the character of both agents.

Author : Eberhard Busch
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802866547

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The Great Passion by Eberhard Busch Pdf

Widely regarded as the twentieth century s greatest theologian, Karth Barth refocused the task of Christian theology and demonstrated its relevance to every domain of human life, from the spiritual to the social to the political. It is precisely the broad sweep of Barth s theology that makes a book like The Great Passion of such great value a succinct yet comprehensive introduction to Barth s entire theological program. Of the many people who write on the life and thought of Karl Barth, Eberhard Busch is uniquely placed. A world-renowned expert on Barth s theology, he also served as Barth s personal assistant from 1965 to 1968. As Busch explains, one cannot fully understand Barth the theologian apart from understanding Barth the man. In this book he weaves doctrine and biography into a superb presentation of Barth s complete work. Busch s purpose in this introduction is to guide readers through the main themes of the multivolume Church Dogmatics against the horizon of our own times and problems. In ten sections Busch clearly explains Barth s views on all of the major subject areas of systematic theology: the nature of revelation, Israel and Christology, the Trinity and the doctrine of predestination, the problem of religion, gospel and law, creation, salvation, the Holy Spirit, ecclesiology, and eschatology. A distinctive feature of the book is the way Busch lets Barth speak for himself, often through surprising quotations and paraphrases. Busch also shows how Barth s writing should be read as a dialogue, constantly and consciously engaging other voices past and present, both inside and outside the church. Most important, The Great Passion demonstrates that Barth s thought is still remarkably helpful today.

Author : Christian T. Collins Winn,John L. Drury
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630876784

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Karl Barth and the Future of Evangelical Theology by Christian T. Collins Winn,John L. Drury Pdf

The theology of Karl Barth has been a productive dialogue partner for evangelical theology. For too long, however, the dialogue has been dominated by questions of orthodoxy. The present volume seeks to contribute to the conversation through a creative reconfiguration of both partners in the conversation, neither of whom can be rightly understood as preservers of Protestant Orthodoxy. Rather, American evangelicalism is identified with the revivalist forms of Protestantism that arose in the post-Reformation era, while Barth is revisited as a theologian attuned both to divine and human agency. In the ensuing conversation questions of orthodoxy are not eliminated, but subordinated to a concern for the life of God and God's people. This volume brings together seasoned Barth scholars, evangelical theologians, and some younger voices, united by a common desire to rethink both Karl Barth and evangelical theology. By offering an alternative to the dominant constraints, the book opens up new avenues for fruitful conversation on Barth and the future of evangelical theology.

Author : Joseph L. Mangina
Publisher : New York : P. Lang
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025334728

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Karl Barth on the Christian Life by Joseph L. Mangina Pdf

This book examines a little-known facet of Karl Barth's theology: his account of the practical or self-involving character of faith. Joseph L. Mangina helps to dispel the myth of Barth as an enemy of the human subject by guiding the reader through key texts from the Church Dogmatics. Examining such themes as religious experience, sin, emotion, and moral agency, Mangina shows that Barth is not merely a skilled dogmatic theologian, but a thoughtful and sensitive interpreter of the Christian life.

Author : Tracey Mark Stout
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498271967

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A Fellowship of Baptism by Tracey Mark Stout Pdf

A Fellowship of Baptism is a critical rereading of Karl Barth's ecclesiology, arguing that reading his ecclesiology through the lens of his mature view of baptism best enables one to understand Barth's view of the church. Barth's insistence on believer's baptism is connected to the free-church ecclesiology he develops in the Church Dogmatics. The church, for Barth, is a gathered, concrete community formed by the Holy Spirit. The result of believer's baptism should be a community that is free from cultural and political control so that it can serve the world and witness to it. At the same time, questions are raised about Barth's rejection of the sacramental nature of baptism and the implications this has for ecclesiology. The strengths of believer's baptism and the weakness of his non-sacramental view are both seen in his writings on the church and are brought into conversation with one another. Reading Barth's ecclesiology and doctrine of baptism together helps to show the interdependence of baptism and ecclesiology in Barth as well as in all church teaching and practice.

Author : Kimlyn J. Bender
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493417940

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Reading Karl Barth for the Church by Kimlyn J. Bender Pdf

Leading Barth interpreter Kimlyn Bender provides an introduction to the essence of Barth's theology, emphasizing themes that speak to the concerns of the church, the pastorate, and Christian ministry. This book serves as a companion to the first volume of Barth's Church Dogmatics, offering straightforward help for reading and understanding that work in its entirety as well as developing the skills necessary to read more of Barth's writings. Reading schedules (for both the first volume and the complete Church Dogmatics) and discussion questions for individuals and groups are included.

Author : H. Martin Rumscheidt,Dikran Hadidian
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780915138616

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The Way of Theology in Karl Barth by H. Martin Rumscheidt,Dikran Hadidian Pdf

Author : Thomas Christian Currie
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625648150

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The Only Sacrament Left to Us by Thomas Christian Currie Pdf

Questions of ecclesiology abound, and Karl Barth has been regarded as an unhelpful conversation partner and guide for those who care about ecclesiology and the place of the church in the academic pursuit of theology. The Only Sacrament Left to Us recovers Barth's doctrine of the threefold Word of God and shows that it is at the heart of Barth's ecclesiological commitments, and that Barth offers a distinct and robust doctrine of the church worthy to be carried forward into the twenty-first-century debates about the church's place in God's economy. The book explores the central role of the threefold Word of God in Barth's theology of the church, explains its place in Barth's later doctrine of reconciliation, and seeks to engage the field of Barth studies with contemporary ecclesiological questions.

Author : James P. Haley
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532614163

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The Humanity of Christ by James P. Haley Pdf

This work is a critical analysis of Karl Barth's unique adoption of the concepts anhypostasis and enhypostasis to explain Christ's human nature in union with the Logos, which becomes the ontological foundation that Barth uses to explain Jesus Christ as very God and very man. The significance of these concepts in Barth's Christology first emerges in the Gottingen Dogmatics and is then more fully developed throughout the Church Dogmatics. Barth's unique coupling together of anhypostasis and enhypostasis provides the ontological grounding, flexibility, and precision that so uniquely characterizes his Christology. As such, Barth expresses the Word became flesh as the revelation of God that flows out of the coalescence of Christ's human nature with his divine nature as the mediation of reconciliation. This ontological dynamic provides the impetus for Barth's critique of Chalcedon's static definition of the union of divine and human natures in Christ from which Barth transitions to an active definition of these two natures. Not only does anhypostasis and enhypostasis explain the dynamic union between the divine and human natures in Christ, but also the dynamic union between Jesus Christ and his Church, which reaches its apex in the reconciliation of humanity with God, in Christ. The ontological foundation of anhypostasis and enhypostasis in Christ's union with his Church explains the importance of the royal man in understanding genuine human nature, the exaltation of human nature, and the sanctification of human nature.

Author : Rustin E. Brian
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620321737

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Covering Up Luther by Rustin E. Brian Pdf

Karl Barth's Christology provides a key to out-narrating the Deus absconditus, which, as Rustin Brian contends, is in fact the god of modernity. Included in this is the rejection of the logical and philosophical systems that allow for the modern understanding of God as the Deus absconditus, namely, dialectics and nominalism. This rejection is illustrated, interestingly enough, in Barth's decision to literally cover up, with a rug, Martin Luther's works in his personal library. Surely this was more than a decorative touch. The reading of Barth's works that results from this starting point challenges much of contemporary Barth scholarship and urges readers to reconsider Barth. Through careful examination of a large body of Barth's writings, particularly in regard to the issues of the knowledge or knowability of God, as well as Christology, Brian argues that contemporary Barth scholarship should be done in careful conversation with the finest examples of both Protestant and, especially, Roman Catholic theology. Barth's paradoxical Christology thus becomes the foundation for a dogmatic ecumenicism. Barth's Christology, then, just might be able to open up possibilities for discussion and even convergence, within a church that is anything but one.

Author : Daniel D. Lee
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506418537

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Double Particularity by Daniel D. Lee Pdf

Double Particularity is a constructive proposal for theological methodology addressing the Asian American context using the theology of Karl Barth. It focuses primarily on employing Barth’s theology to develop a methodology for engaging the Asian American context. This methodological focus means that it is an integrative and synthetic work, bringing seemingly disparate thoughts and concepts together. Here, the Asian American context serves as an important case study. With the center of worldwide Christianity moving to the global South, and even as American Christianity becomes more reflective of immigrant populations, the theological need for a deeper engagement with context is more urgent than ever. Karl Barth, particularly his thought on election, Christology, and reconciliation, offers much wisdom and insight for the churches of the majority world and for these ethnic churches, even though he is often seen as just a figure in the Western historical tradition. Hence, this study is a contribution to the development of a connection between Barth and contextual theology, to the stimulation and enrichment of both.

Author : Wessel Bentley
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781443817912

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The Notion of Mission in Karl Barth’s Ecclesiology by Wessel Bentley Pdf

As the church moves towards its 21st century of existence, it is confronted by challenges it has never known before. Globalization, the rise of different socio-political orders and a growing tendency towards a post-modern understanding of the world are but some of the issues. This changing world demands self-reflection from the church. It has to consider its place, identity and function, thereby giving rise to the exploration of its mission. In this book, the ecclesiology of Karl Barth is explored. By considering Barth’s understanding of the church’s relationship with different parties such as God, other religions, those outside the Christian faith, the State and its own inner dynamics, the church will be reminded of its missionary function in the world. The church’s relationships are important for they direct the way in which it fits into the world. When it considers that it exists purely because of God’s self-revelation, and that its own existence is an act of faith in response to this divine self-disclosure, it becomes aware of defined parameters within which the church can operate under the banner of mission.

Author : W. Travis McMaken,David W. Congdon
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608996773

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Karl Barth in Conversation by W. Travis McMaken,David W. Congdon Pdf

Karl Barth was an eminently conversational theologian, and with the Internet revolution, we live today in an eminently conversational age. Being the proceedings of the 2010 Karl Barth Blog Conference, Karl Barth in Conversation brings these two factors together in order to advance the dialogue about Barth's theology and extend the online conversation to new audiences. With conversation partners ranging from Wesley to iek, from Schleiermacher to Jenson, from Hauerwas to the Coen brothers, this volume opens up exciting new horizons for exploring Barth's immense contribution to church and world. The contributors, who represent a young new generation of academic theologians, bring a fresh perspective to a topic--the theology of Karl Barth--that often seems to have exhausted its range of possibilities. This book proves that there is still a great deal of uncharted territory in the field of Barth studies. Today, more than forty years since the Swiss theologian's death, the conversation is as lively as ever.

Author : George Hunsinger
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802865502

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Evangelical, Catholic, and Reformed by George Hunsinger Pdf

Wide-ranging doctrinal expositions by an expert scholar of 20th-century theologian Karl Barth In this book prominent Barth scholar George Hunsinger presents fifteen essays on Karl Barth s understanding of Christian doctrine across a wide spectrum of topics, concluding with suggestions as to how Barth s theology might fruitfully be retrieved for the future. Hunsinger discusses Barth s views on such subjects as the Trinity, creation, natural theology, Christology, justification, and time and eternity. As he delves into Barth s theological substance, Hunsinger highlights ways in which Barth s work was Evangelical, Catholic, and Reformed, illuminating the ecumenical aspects of his thought. No other volume explains Barth s views on this range of topics with such scope, depth, and clarity.