“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.

In the Fulness of Time

1972 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-216
Author(s):  
Gerard I. Capaldi
Keyword(s):  
Natural Process ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Church Dogmatics ◽  
Evolution And Development ◽  
The Relationship

The time of which Paul speaks in this passage which ‘had fully come’ was not the time of the culmination of some natural process of evolution and development. Rather the time was ‘full’ because it had been ordained to be so by the appointment of God.2 It was in God's good and own time that the Son was sent. This concept of a time that is God's has been analysed at length by Karl Barth, particularly in the section ‘Man in His Time’ in Church Dogmatics, III/11.3 For Barth all time is God's time, for time is not some absolute standing outside and against God. There is no god called Chronos rivalling God and imposing conditions upon him.4 Nor is the relationship between God and time merely an extrinsic one; rather there is given an essential relationship, for ‘even the eternal God does not live without time.

Revelation and religion in the theology of Karl Barth

1971 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Veitch
Keyword(s):  
Karl Barth ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Church Dogmatics ◽  
Christian Understanding ◽  
Significant Change ◽  
The Relationship

In the following discussion I wish to demonstrate the basic homogeneity of Barth's thinking on the relationship between Divine self-disclosure and Religion. In order to restrict the discussion, reference will be made to the second edition of the commentary on Romans, the first volume of the Church Dogmatics, the essays: ‘The Humanity of God’and ‘The Christian Understanding of Revelation’, and volume four of the Dogmatics— for if there has been a significant change in the structure of Barth's thinking, one must expect to find such evidence in these basic sources. While the primary aim is to explore the relationship between Revelation and Religion, the discussion must necessarily take into consideration a number of secondary relationships which impinge upon the central theme at certain places. These secondary relationships as it happens, vary in accordance with the dialogical situation in which Barth formulates his argument. In Romans for example, the resurrection of Jesus occupies a pivotal position, but in the first volume of the Dogmatics he has shifted his attention to the significance of the Incarnation. Again, however, at the closing stages of volume four attention has swung back to the importance and relevance of the resurrection for Christian faith.

Barth, Karl (1886–1968)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Loup Seban
Keyword(s):  
National Socialism ◽  
Natural Theology ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
World War ◽  
Church Dogmatics ◽  
Biblical Scholarship ◽  
Christian Socialism ◽  
Protestant Theologian ◽  
Theological Understanding

Karl Barth was the most prominent Protestant theologian of a generation shaken by the traumatic experience of the First World War and concerned with giving Christian theology a new grounding. He took a creative part in the struggle of the German Church against National Socialism, and, after the Second World War, exerted a worldwide influence that reached beyond the bounds of Protestantism. Although influenced at first by Christian socialism, Barth came to repudiate such ‘hyphenated’ versions of Christianity, which, he felt, underemphasize or ignore the otherness of God. There is an infinite qualitative distinction between the divine and the human; the Enlightenment attempt to historicize and secularize revelation was profoundly mistaken. This ‘dialectical theology’ attracted a number of leading theologians in the 1920s. Later, however, Barth felt compelled to close the gap with the divine, and developed a ‘theology of the Word’ to this end. Central to this approach is the concept of the knowledge conferred by faith, which makes theological understanding and rationality possible. It was on the basis of this that Barth constructed his massive Die Kirchliche Dogmatik (Church Dogmatics) (1932–70). In this, he emphasizes the self-expounding nature of Scripture (by contrast with nineteenth-century biblical scholarship, which stressed the need for a historical approach to the text) and the importance of Christ in the understanding of theology and human nature. He was a determined opponent of natural theology, and was critical of the idea that philosophy could complement theology.

Christianity and World Religions: The Judgement of Karl Barth

1994 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-206
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Theological Method ◽  
World Religions ◽  
Church Dogmatics ◽  
Theological Argument ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church ◽  
Made In

Hans Frei's description of Karl Barth's theological method as one of ‘ ad hoc correlation’ invites a new assessment of the relationship between §17 of the Church Dogmatics (‘Revelation as the Abolition of Religion’) and the wider argument in which it is set. On the basis of such an assessment, the claim is made in this article that §17 is an intrusion into an otherwise integrated theological argument and is occasioned only by Barth's attempt to correlate this wider argument to a then prevailing theory regarding Christianity's relationship to other religions.

scholarly journals Clinical and Pastoral Implications of the Ministry of Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation

Open Theology ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel K. Judd
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Protestant Reformation ◽  
Emotional Instability ◽  
Major Purpose ◽  
Effective Care ◽  
Theological Understanding ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractWhile acknowledging that many theological beliefs and religious practices facilitate mental health and emotional stability, the major purpose of this paper is to identify and demonstrate that some of these same beliefs and practices can also contribute to mental instability if understood incorrectly and practiced unwisely. The unique content of this paper is a pastoral, clinical, and historical narrative concerning the relationships of religious belief and practice with the mental health of 16th century priest, pastor, professor, and Protestant reformer Martin Luther. Specifically, this paper discusses Luther’s personal experiences with mental and emotional instability, including depression and scrupulosity, and explores ways that discovering and embracing the principle of grace assisted him in dealing with his own mental and emotional crises. This paper also treats ways that both psychological and theological understanding of the relationship between the doctrinal principles of grace and human volition can assist both health care professionals and clergy to provide effective care to those they serve.

scholarly journals Kerk - Kultuur - Volk - Owerheid

1996 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
W. A. Dreyer
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Church Culture ◽  
Need To Evaluate ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Theological Understanding ◽  
The Relationship

Church - CUlture - People - Government. Since 1994 the Republic of South Africa has undergone profound political and cultural changes. The churches in South Africa (including the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika as an Afrikaans-orientated church) need to evaluate the situation and come to a theological understanding of their relationship with the culture, people and government of South Africa. This article examines the relationship between church, culture, people and government from an historical, theological, philosophical and practical perspective.

The Doctrine of Appropriation as an Interpretative Framework for Karl Barth's Pneumatology of the Church Dogmatics

2007 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 278-290
Author(s):  
Adam McIntosh
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Trinitarian Theology ◽  
Church Dogmatics ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Doctrine Of The Trinity ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
Interpretative Framework

Although Karl Barth is widely recognised as the initiator of the renewal of trinitarian theology in the twentieth century, his theology of the Church Dogmatics has been strongly criticised for its inadequate account of the work of the Holy Spirit. This author argues that the putative weakness of Barth's pneumatology should be reconsidered in light of his doctrine of appropriation. Barth employs the doctrine of appropriation as a hermeneutical procedure, within his doctrine of the Trinity, for bringing to speech the persons of the Trinity in their inseparable distinctiveness. It is argued that the doctrine of appropriation provides a sound interpretative framework for his pneumatology of the Church Dogmatics.

The Doctrine of Reconciliation: A Survey of Barth's Kirchliche Dogmatik IV/2

1957 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-85
Author(s):  
G. W. Bromiley
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Previous Issue ◽  
Church Dogmatics ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Present Part ◽  
The Common

IN the latest part-volume of the Church Dogmatics published in the autumn of 1955, Karl Barth has given us his second comprehensive survey of the doctrine of reconciliation. For the setting of this treatment within the whole, readers are referred to the synopsis of the first part-volume in a previous issue (Volume 8, Number 2, June 1955), or better still, to the English translation which is now available (cf. especially § 58, 4). Within this whole, the present part-volume deals with the common material under the general title of ‘Jesus Christ, the Servant as Lord’, and therefore from the standpoint of the kingly work of Christ. The volume consists of one long chapter (953 pages) within the Dogmatics, and is divided into five main sections. It is to be noted, incidentally, that in the rendering of Versöhnung in the main title of Volume IV the word ‘reconciliation’ has now been preferred to ‘atonement’, although the latter is often used where it agrees with the context.

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