How Did Barth Understand Election | Stephen Williams
Channel: Henry Center
Date: 12/09/2022

2009 Kantzer Lecture #2 - Barth on Election Integrated with Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms

In this lecture, Williams takes account of the enduring influence of Barth’s doctrine of election.  He briefly lays out the major contours of Barth’s construction before going on to evaluate its merits.  The lecture, however, becomes as much about instruction in interpreting other theologians and speculation as it is about the doctrine of election itself.  Williams concludes that in Barth, atonement and election are swapped.  The universal extent of the atonement is moved to election and election (and reprobation) to atonement, Jesus as the reprobate one.

Stephen N. Williams (PhD Yale University) is Honorary Professor of Theology at Queen’s University and served as a Senior Research Fellow with the Creation Project. His books include Revelation and Reconciliation: A Window on Modernity (Cambridge University Press, 1996), The Shadow of the Antichrist: Nietzsche’s Critique of Christianity (Baker Academic, 2006), and The Election of Grace: A Riddle without a Resolution? (Eerdmans, 2015).

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