Karl Barth and the Resurrection of the Flesh
Subtitle: The Loss of the Body in Participatory Eschatology
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub
Published: Feb 15, 2013
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781610978026
Description: "Early Christian writers preferred to speak of the coming resurrection in the most bodily way possible: the resurrection of the flesh. Twentieth-century theologian Karl Barth took the same avenue, daring to speak of humans' eternal life in rather striking corporeal terms. In this study, Nathan Hitchcock pulls together Barth's doctrine of the resurrection of the flesh, anticipating what the great thinker might have said more systematically in volume V of his 'Church Dogmatics'. Provocatively, Hitchcock goes on to argue that Barth's description of the resurrection - as eternalization, as manifestation, as incorporation - bears much in common with some unlikely programs and, contrary to its intention, jeopardizes the very contours of human life it hopes to preserve. In addition to contributing to Barth studies, this book offers a sober warning to theologians pursuing eschatology through notions of participation." -- Publisher's description.
Notes: Source title: Karl Barth and the Resurrection of the Flesh: The Loss of the Body in Participatory Eschatology