Reading Karl Barth

Reading Karl Barth
Author: Kenneth Oakes
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2011-09-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1610970160

Karl Barth's 1922 The Epistle to the Romans is one of the most famous, notorious, and influential works in twentieth-century theology and biblical studies. It is also a famously and notoriously difficult and enigmatic work, especially as its historical context becomes more and more foreign. In this book, Kenneth Oakes provides historical background to the writing of The Epistle to the Romans, an introduction and analysis of its main themes and terms, a running commentary on the text itself, and suggestions for further readings from Barth on some of the issues it raises. The volume not only offers orientation and assistance for those reading The Epistle to the Romans for the first time, it also deals with contemporary problems in current Barth scholarship regarding liberalism, dialectics, and analogy.

Karl Barth on Theology and Philosophy

Karl Barth on Theology and Philosophy
Author: Kenneth Oakes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199661162

This book is an analysis of Karl Barth's understanding of the relationship between theology and philosophy. Kenneth Oakes shows the complexity and variability of Barth's thoughts on theology and philosophy and challenges the typical views that Barth was either too hostile towards philosophy or too indebted to it.

Saving Karl Barth

Saving Karl Barth
Author: D. Stephen Long
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2014-02-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1451479727

Challenging recent rejections of Hans Urs von Balthasar’s groundbreaking study of Karl Barth’s theology, Stephen Long argues that these interpreters are myopically impatient with the nuances of Balthasar’s reading of Barth and fail to appreciate the longstanding theological friendship that perdured. Even more, current readings threaten to repristinate the embattled divide hallmarking Protestant-Catholic relations prior to Vatican II. Long contends against these contemporary trajectories in a substantial defense of Balthasar’s theological preoccupation with Barth’s thought. This book offers one of the first full contextualizations of the friendship that developed between Balthasar and Barth, which lasted from the 1930s until Balthasar’s death in the 1980s. Re-evaluating Balthasar’s theological work on Barth, the present volume provides a critical new reading of not only Balthasar’s original volume but a wider account of the systematic engagement Balthasar carried on throughout his career. Within this, a paradigm for fruitful, generous ecumenical dialogue emerges.

The Humanity of Christ

The Humanity of Christ
Author: James P. Haley
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2017-10-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1532614160

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.

Karl Barth's Dialogue with Catholicism in Göttingen and Münster

Karl Barth's Dialogue with Catholicism in Göttingen and Münster
Author: Amy Marga
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2010
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9783161501487

Amy Marga studies Karl Barth's early encounter with Roman Catholic theology during the 1920s, especially seen in his seminal set of dogmatic lectures given in Gottingen, and his second set of dogmatic lectures, given in Munster and which remain unpublished. Her analysis demonstrates his search for a concept of God's objectivity - Gegenstandlichkeit - which would not be dependent upon philosophically-laden concepts such as the analogia entis, but which would rather be anchored in God's being alone. The author shows that Roman Catholicism, especially the thought of Erich Przywara, became the key interlocutor that helped Barth bring this clarity to his doctrine of revelation and the triune God.

Great Christian Thinkers

Great Christian Thinkers
Author: Hans Küng
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1994-05-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780826408488

An introduction to theologians who greatly affected Christian thought includes portraits of Paul, Origen, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, Friedrich Schleiermacher, and Karl Barth

The Christian Message in a Non-Christian World

The Christian Message in a Non-Christian World
Author: Hendrik Kraemwer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 487
Release: 2009
Genre:
ISBN: 9788190869102

Reading a classic work on Christian mission presents challenges on various fronts... Hendrik Kraemer's study of The Christian Message in a Non-Christian World is a classic work, worthy of the attention and esteem it garners in historical studies of the Christian mission... Kraemer's study sparkles with insight, and that is the most compelling reason for afresh study of this great work.

What Happens in Holy Communion?

What Happens in Holy Communion?
Author: Michael Welker
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2000
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802846020

All the large churches in the world agree on this: communion is the highest expression of the church unity. Yet it is exactly the act of communion that historically has given rise to vehement controversies among the churches. This new book not only explores the meaning of holy communion but also marks a turning point on the way to common understanding. Welker gives a clear explanation of holy communion based on the biblical tradition and evaluates the ecumenical discourse on communion of the past thirty years. In the process he answers such often posed questions as "What do we mean when we say that Christ is present in communion?" "How are Christ's body and blood connected with bread and wine?" "What is the difference between the Christian Supper and the Jewish Passover meal?" and "Are children allowed to share in communion?"

The Christian Faith

The Christian Faith
Author: Carl E. Braaten
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2020-05-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725251469

This single volume of dogmatics is an introduction to the Christian faith as such, written from an intentionally ecumenical perspective. Although this book is written by a Lutheran, its aim is to draw from the deep wells of the Christian tradition, its creeds and confessions, common to all denominations. Denominational dogmatics tends to define and defend the teachings of the Christian faith from the perspective of a particular church, in distinction from others. Ecumenical dogmatics is a relatively new attempt to focus on the beliefs and teachings fundamental to all communities that call themselves Christian. Such a project aims to be more irenic than polemical, intent on seeking and serving reconciliation and unity in Christ. The trinitarian and christological confessions of the first five centuries are foundational for all Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant Reformation churches and, despite all their subsequent differences and divisions, are quintessential in their journey toward reconciliation and reunion. These ancient creeds also suggest the appropriate outline for the organization of the contents of dogmatics even today, following the works of the triune God—creation, redemption, and sanctification.