In the arms of our elders
By: by William Henry Lewis.
Publisher: Carolina Wren Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: African Americans -- Fiction.; African American families -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: John Webster provides a major scholarly analysis, the first in any language, of the final sections of the Church Dogmatics. He focuses on the theme of human agency in Barth's late ethics and doctrine of baptism, placing the discussion in the context of an interpretation of the Dogmatics as an intrinsically ethical dogmatics.

The first two chapters survey the themes of agency, covenant, and human reality in the Dogmatics as a whole; later chapters give a thorough analysis of Church Dogmatics IV/4 and the posthumously published text The Christian Life. A final chapter examines the significance of Barth's work for contemporary accounts of moral selfhood.

The book is important not only for a detailed analysis of a neglected part of Barth's oeuvre, but also because it casts into question much of what has hitherto been written about Barth's ethical dogmatics.
Table of contents: title: The days the light stays on; title: A man and his son went looking for pine planks; title: The sun of 47 years; title: Moving; title: Leaving the dog, I saw a buzzard in the road; title: The trip back from Whidbey; title: Sister got a man; title: Other people's houses; title: Germinating.