Barths »Tambacher Vortrag« und Bonhoeffers »tiefe Diesseitigkeit«. Bahnbrechende Impulse für Kirche und Gesellschaft noch heute

2019 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 246-257
Author(s):  
Michael Welker
Keyword(s):  
Karl Barth ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Dietrich Bonhoeffer ◽  
Church And Society

Abstract This paper examines two ingenious theological contributions by Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer: the famous Tambach lecture by Barth, given 100 years ago, and the concept of the »deep worldliness« (tiefe Diesseitigkeit) of the Christian faith developed by Bonhoeffer in his prison letters. It shows why even today both contributions have orienting power for church and society in situations of radical transition and change. Both contributions derive their strength from the fact that they have a clear theological and at the same time realistic orientation, Christologically and implicitly also pneumatologically founded. On this base they link a serious theology and a vigilant critical contemporaneity.

scholarly journals ‘Getting the Reformation in America’: The Making of Paul Lehmann as a Public Theologian

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-107
Author(s):  
Philip G. Ziegler
Keyword(s):  
Karl Barth ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Dietrich Bonhoeffer ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Theological Perspective ◽  
Key Features

Paul L. Lehmann (1906–1994) was one of the leading Protestant theologians and ethicists of his generation. Working directly from archival sources and early writings, this article offers an account of the formation of key features of his distinctive theological perspective up to and including the first decades of his professional career. It argues that Lehmann prosecutes a distinctive and markedly Protestant form of public theology, centred on an understanding of the Word of God as a present, dynamic and humanising power, to which Christian faith, life and thought give witness and serve catalytically. In this, Lehmann shows himself to be a premier advocate for lines of thinking he first encountered in the work of Karl Barth and of his friend, Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Barth, Bonhoeffer, and Modern Politics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Mauldin
Keyword(s):  
National Socialism ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Dietrich Bonhoeffer ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Modern Democracy ◽  
Modern Politics ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

Recent political events around the world have raised the specter of an impending collapse of democratic institutions. Contemporary worries about the decline of liberal democracy harken back to the tumult of the 1930s and 1940s in Europe. Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer lived in Germany during the rise of National Socialism, and each reflected on what the rise of totalitarianism meant for the aspirations of modern politics. Engaging the realities of totalitarian terror, they avoided despairing rejections of modern society. Beginning with Barth in the wake of the First World War, following Bonhoeffer through the 1930s and 1940s in Nazi Germany, and concluding with Barth’s postwar reflections in the 1950s, this study explores how these figures reflected on modern society during this turbulent time and how their work is relevant to the current crisis of modern democracy

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Joshua Mauldin
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
National Socialism ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Dietrich Bonhoeffer ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Modern Democracy ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

Recent political events around the world have raised the specter of an impending collapse of democratic institutions. Contemporary worries about the decline of liberal democracy harken back to the tumult of the 1930s and 1940s in Europe. Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer lived in Germany during the rise of National Socialism, and each reflected on what the rise of totalitarianism meant for the aspirations of modern politics. Engaging the realities of totalitarian terror, they avoided despairing rejections of modern society. Beginning with Barth in the wake of the First World War, following Bonhoeffer through the 1930s and 1940s in Nazi Germany, and concluding with Barth’s postwar reflections in the 1950s, this study explores how these figures reflected on modern society during this turbulent time and how their work is relevant to the current crisis of modern democracy.

Barth or Bultmann?

1978 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-290
Author(s):  
N. H. G. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Method ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
The Other ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Fundamental Nature ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

In his book on Karl Barth Professor T. F. Torrance spoke at one point of ‘the great watershed of modern theology’. ‘There are,’ he wrote,1‘two basic issues here. On the one hand, it is the very substance of the Christian faith that is at stake, and on the other hand, it is the fundamental nature of scientific method, in its critical and methodological renunciation of prior understanding, that is at stake. This is the great watershed of modern theology: either we take the one way or the other – there is no third alter native… one must go either in the direction taken by Barth or in the direction taken by Bultmann.’

scholarly journals Graciously commanded: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Karl Barth on the Decalogue

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-141
Author(s):  
Philip G. Ziegler
Keyword(s):  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Divine Command ◽  
Theological Ethics ◽  
Dietrich Bonhoeffer ◽  
Divine Commands

AbstractThis essay examines and compares the treatment of the Decalogue in the theological ethics of Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. It argues that while both theologians orient their exposition of the Decalogue by attending to its primary character as divine self-revelation, approach it with a view to a Christian ethics of divine command, and frame their understandings in decisively christological terms, they differ markedly on the extent to which the commandments themselves can and ought to be understood as representing concrete divine commands.

scholarly journals PEMIKIRAN TEOLOGIS EDUKATIF YOHANES CALVIN SERTA RELEVANSINYA BAGI PENDIDIKAN BERGEREJA MASA KINI

Tumou Tou ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 11-26
Author(s):  
Jeane Marie Tulung ◽  
Yornan Masinamboue
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Church And Society ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Church

The purpose of this paper is to describe and understand how the thought of John Calvin who was a famous reformer figure from time to time. Calvin paid great attention to Christian education especially in the church. He arranged systematically the way, the content of the teaching, as well as the qualifications, self-image of the teachers both pastors and religious teachers who were all based on the Bible and to glorify God. The method used in this paper is a qualitative research method with a literature study study in which the researcher reviews, compares, formulates and analyzes Calvin's thoughts both in his life context, his thoughts through books, documents, journals and other relevant literature studies. From the findings it can be said that Calvin's educative theological thought is purely based on the Bible. For Calvin, the teaching of the Christian faith is determined by the Bible and interpretations that are right and right and can have a good influence on the church and society. Calvin is always thinking of the right way so that the quality of the faith of the congregation continues to develop well and can be implemented in a variety of social life. In the midst of challenges today the church is required not to be carried away by various kinds of ideas that do not emphasize the Bible as the basis of human life. As it was done, Calvin the priests, teachers of religion today are required with full responsibility to think deeply about ways to continue to nourish the true Christian faith based on the Scriptures so that the quality of their faith is well preserved and lives glorifying God.

Christian Faith and the Protestant Principle

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madhuri M. Yadlapati
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Paul Tillich ◽  
Human Understanding ◽  
Justification By Faith ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

This chapter takes a closer look at three figures whose discussions of faith are among the most influential in twentieth-century Christian theology. Two, Paul Tillich and Karl Barth, are twentieth-century Christian theologians and one, Søren Kierkegaard, is a nineteenth-century philosopher, but all three determine directions taken by existentialist Christian theology in the late twentieth century. All three figures happen to be Protestant, not simply by denominational identification, but more importantly, each is guided by the Protestant doctrine of justification by faith alone to emphasize the priority of God's saving grace over any human works and human understanding. All three adhere to the Protestant Principle (an individual's right and responsibility to radically question and reinterpret questions of faith), albeit in different ways.

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