Karl Barth on Divine Command: A Jewish Response

2001 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 463-483
Author(s):  
David Novak
Keyword(s):  
Martin Buber ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Divine Command ◽  
Paul Tillich ◽  
Reinhold Niebuhr ◽  
Church Dogmatics ◽  
Real Contact ◽  
Living Tradition ◽  
Magnum Opus ◽  
A Current

Usually one does not include Karl Barth in contemporary Jewish-Christian dialogue. Unlike his Protestant theological contemporaries, Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr, there in no evidence that during his long theological career Barth had any real contact with Jewish thinkers. The only contemporary Jewish thinker whom he engages, to my knowledge, is Martin Buber, but in his magnum opus, Church Dogmatics, Buber is discussed almost en passent and with a rather hurried dismissal. Barth's relations with Judaism are seriously complicated, but one gets the impression from reading what he says about Judaism that he is doing typology, engaging a type already created in his mind largely by Paul and those who followed in his path. He does not seem to be dealing with Judaism as a living tradition, indeed a current rival religious option to Christianity. After all, how can one engage Judaism as a living tradition, let alone as a current rival, if one has no serious contact with living Jews during the most productive years of one's thought? For that reason it would seem an engagement of Barth's thought by a contemporary Jewish theologian could only be, at most, an arcane academic exercise having no real Jewish significance.

scholarly journals Mengenal Martin Buber dan Filsafat Dialogisnya

2001 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-50
Author(s):  
Pancha W. Yahya
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Martin Buber ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Paul Tillich ◽  
Reinhold Niebuhr

Tidak lama setelah kematian Martin Buber pada kolom editorial New York Times terdapat komentar berikut: “Martin Buber was the foremost Jewish religious thinker of our time and one of the world’s most influental philosophers.” Buber, meskipun ia seorang Yahudi yang beragama Yahudi namun memberi banyak pengaruh kepada pemikir-pemikir Kristen, seperti John Baille, Karl Barth, Emil Brunner, Friedrich Gogarten, Reinhold Niebuhr, H. Richard Niebuhr, J. H. Oldham, Paul Tillich, serta para pemikir Kristen lainnya …. Buber tidak hanya memberikan pengaruh di bidang filsafat dan teologi saja, tetapi juga di bidang-bidang lain. Karena besarnya pengaruh Buber, khususnya di bidang filsafat dan teologi, agaknya kita perlu mengenal Buber lebih dekat, serta pemikirannya. Karena tidak mungkin menuangkan seluruh pemikiran Buber dalam artikel yang relatif pendek ini, penulis hanya akan memperkenalkan salah satu pemikiran Buber yang dianggap paling berpengaruh, yaitu filsafat dialogisnya.

Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics

2020 ◽  
pp. 341-353
Author(s):  
Eberhard Busch
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Reformed Theology ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Church Dogmatics ◽  
Magnum Opus ◽  
Classical Traditions

The most significant Reformed theologian of the twentieth century, Karl Barth, exercised a remarkably critical role relative to the classical traditions of Reformed Theology. His theological project drew on modern biblical criticism, post-Kantian philosophy, and early twentieth-century approaches to Christocentrism. Nevertheless, he prepared to offer a systematic theology by going to school with the classic texts of the Reformed tradition and by engaging in prolonged biblical exegesis. Eventually, Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics presented an orderly account of the Christian faith centred on and beginning with the self-presentation of God in Jesus Christ. It enfolds prolegomena, ethics, and homiletical guidance within its span, believing these ancillary discussions to demand properly theological and thus Christological regulation. This chapter explores the Christological focus and rhetorical style before turning to introduce each of the constituent parts (Word of God, God, Creation, and Reconciliation) of that magnum opus.

Karl Barth and personalist philosophy: a critical appropriation

2010 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark J. McInroy
Keyword(s):  
Significant Influence ◽  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
Martin Buber ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Trinitarian Theology ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Church Dogmatics ◽  
Classic Work ◽  
I And Thou

AbstractScholarship on Karl Barth's engagement with so-called ‘personalist philosophy’ has claimed that the following three sources exerted a significant influence on this aspect of Barth's thought: (1) the founders of an interdisciplinary society known as the ‘Patmos Circle’; (2) Barth's fellow dialectical theologians, Emil Brunner and Friedrich Gogarten; (3) Martin Buber, in particular his classic work, I and Thou. In spite of these assessments, however, I argue that Barth's initial stance towards personalism is actually best characterised as one of resistance and criticism. Specifically, I claim here that Barth undertakes a highly critical appropriation of personalism in which the categories of encounter (Begegnung), co-humanity (Mitmenschlichkeit) and the I–Thou relation (Ich–Du-Beziehung) are deeply criticised and recast in an explicitly theological – not philosophical – mould. When Barth does use personalist categories in his own theological anthropology – particularly in the Church Dogmatics, III/2 – he roots his notion of the human being as a ‘being in encounter’ in his christology and trinitarian theology, comprehensively restructuring personalist categories by placing them on a new foundation.

Karl Barth

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Yocum
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
The Self ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Sacramental Theology ◽  
Church Dogmatics ◽  
Magnum Opus ◽  
Protestant Theologian ◽  
The Church

This chapter traces the theology of the sacraments of perhaps the greatest Protestant theologian of the twentieth century, the Swiss Reformed theologian and pastor Karl Barth. Regarding Baptism and Eucharist as addressed in Barth’s magnum opus, Church Dogmatics, sacraments, along with preaching, are deemed the two primary ways the church proclaims Jesus Christ as the Word of God. Barth emphasizes sacraments as signs of the “secondary objectivity of God,” signs of receiving the self-giving God. While linking Christian baptism with the baptism of Jesus, fascinatingly, Barth eventually argues that baptism is not an actual sacrament. In fact, ultimately Barth actually denies any sacrament except Jesus Christ. Thus, when it comes to sacramental theology, Barth “acts as a healthy foil to those tempted to inflate the role of human institutions and practices.”

WHERE IS KARL BARTH IN MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY?

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 333-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
RUDY KOSHAR
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Philosophical Theology ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Church Dogmatics ◽  
Fully Integrated ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Magnum Opus ◽  
Intellectual Leader

Anglophone historians of modern Europe know Karl Barth primarily as the intellectual leader of the anti-Nazi Church Struggle and the principle author of the Barmen Declaration of 1934, which spoke a dramatic “No” to National Socialism's attack on the German churches. But Barth was also arguably the most important—and most prolific—theologian of the twentieth century. Aside from his unfinished magnum opus, the fourteen-volumeChurch Dogmatics, he published more than one hundred books and articles, and he quite literally wrote until the day he died in 1968. Barth's output has elicited an equally impressive secondary literature, produced mostly by students of theology and amounting to around fourteen thousand titles in twenty-five languages. As might be expected, theologians differ in their interpretations of Barth, seeing him as a formative voice in “neo-orthodox” Protestantism, a left-wing socialist, a fitting subject of deconstructionist philosophical theology, a thinker who showed the way “past the modern,” or a “critically realistic dialectical theologian.” In view of this record it may come as a surprise to find that until recently the Swiss was still “habitually honored but not much read,” as theologian George Hunsinger wrote in 1991. Hunsinger was not the only observer to see that Barth's work was never fully integrated into the corpus of theological culture in Europe and the United States despite the scholarly interest in his thought. This situation may be changing, as a transatlantic “Barth renaissance” now gathers momentum, nearly forty years after the great theologian's death.

“Like Son, Like Father”

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-198
Author(s):  
David MacLachlan
Keyword(s):  
Important Influence ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Church Dogmatics ◽  
Theological Understanding ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Markus Barth’s book Die Taufe: Ein Sakrament? had an evident and important influence on the development of his father Karl Barth’s theological understanding of the nature and practice of Christian baptism. This essay explores that influence, considers its scope and significance, and suggests in the course of so doing that the relationship between the elder and the younger Barth is a notable factor in what led to the provocative theology of baptism at which Karl Barth arrived in the late, fragmentary volume of the Church Dogmatics.

scholarly journals Hermeneutic Inquiry: Paying Heed to History and Hermes An Ancestral, Substantive, and Methodological Tale

2002 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy J. Moules
Keyword(s):  
Current Practice ◽  
Living Tradition ◽  
Hermeneutic Inquiry ◽  
Interpretive Inquiry ◽  
The Right ◽  
A Current

Hermeneutic or interpretive inquiry is a living tradition of interpretation with a rich legacy of theory, philosophy, and practice. This paper is not intended to be a treatise on the right way to view and practice this tradition, but an exploration of the legacies that inform the philosophy of practice as the author has taken it up. In this explication, the author examines the ancestral, philosophical, and methodological histories that inform a current practice of hermeneutic inquiry.

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