Karl Barth
Subtitle: centenary essays
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: und
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780521097215
Description: This short volume, which emerged from the Karl Barth centenary year in 1986, brings together a collection of essays which makes an important contribution to Barth interpretation. Few would dispute the fact that Karl Barth is one of the great figures of twentieth-century theology, and two decades after his death he continues to fascinate those who study the field and his own thought in the magisterial, unfinished Church Dogmatics. Yet while his impact and influence upon modern theology has been great, Barth has been subject, too, to suspicion ...
Table of contents: title: Note on the text; 1. Introduction S.W. Sykes; 2. Karl Barth's eschatological realism Ingolf U. Dalferth; 3. The triune God and the freedom of the creature Colin E. Gunton; 4. Authority and openness in the Church S.W. Sykes; 5. Ad Limina Apostolorum in retrospect:history, typology and prospect Richard H. Roberts / the reaction of Karl Barth to Vatican II Philip J. Rosato SJ; 6. The reception of the theology of Karl Barth in the Anglo-Saxon world.