Karl Barth's Table Talk
Subtitle: Transcripts of Barth's Conversations With His Students at the Bruderholz Restaurant in Basel During the Years 1958-1964
By: Raymond Kemp Anderson with a foreword by John Hesselink
Contributors: Barth, Karl, 1886-1968, author; Hesselink, John, author of introduction, etc
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Lewiston, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780773434974
Subjects: Theology; Dogma; Christian philosophy; Theologians; Biography
Notes: Includes index (pages 339-347).
Table of contents: title: God for man, freedom to be himself, gracious and liberating; title: Theological knowledge, faith's free response; title: God, graciously veiled in nature, presents self in human terms; title: Addressed by the Bible; title: The issue of general revelation, biblical faith and nature; title: Natural theology, a natural folly; title: The ill-fated mirror, speculations always push towards monopoly; title: If God is for real, why does God hide?; title: How can anyone truly know God?; title: Responding to God's eternity and glory (précis); title: If liberation is God's own glory, how free we are to be!; title: God-talk from the inside out; title: How broadly may we hope?; title: Humanity as a whole; can it really be accepted?; title: Human life means community, the Jewish witness; title: The promies, Old Testament and New; title: Jesus, God for man: wide-open atonement vs. divine parsimony?; title: Ethics, a task within our doctrine of God; title: Approaches to law and gospel; title: Agents of liberation; title: The word as sole criterion: Jesus Christ, scripture's focus and the only sacrament; title: Creation's ultimate purpose envisioned: freedom for covenant; title: Creation's purpose fulfilled: freedom in covenant; title: Creation old and new: God's coherent gift; title: Mankindin the cosmos and creation's science; title: Jesus, man for God; title: True humanity in and out of grace; title: The majesty of God's self-representation (a Sozietät discussion); title: To relate only in grace, God keeps to the wings of our world (another Sozietät discussion); title: On God before man: permission in command (The preparatory précis for a colloquium)