scholarly journals The God of the Covenant: Karl Barth on Creation Care

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 326
Author(s):  
Nixon de Vera
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Analogy Of Being ◽  
Creation Care ◽  
Analogia Entis ◽  
Doctrine Of Creation

This article seeks to explore the identity of the Creator God in Karl Barth’s doctrine of creation. Attention is given to his understanding of the eternal covenant God has made with humanity and how we are cared for within a covenantal fellowship. The study also concerns itself with how Barth’s distaste for the notion of analogia entis is somewhat unsustained in his treatment of creation. I argue that, to some extent, the analogy of being vis-à-vis the cosmos is complementarily employed with analogia fides in Barth’s articulation of creation care. This is the case as he reconfigures the talk on creation rigidly in and through Jesus Christ as Creator and creature.

Analogies across Faiths

2019 ◽  
pp. 115-136
Author(s):  
Joshua Ralston
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Analogy Of Being ◽  
Analogia Entis ◽  
Conversation Partner

Joshua Ralston frankly acknowledges Barth’s dismissive comments about Islam and the possibility of Muslim-Christian dialogue. Despite these comments, Ralston seeks to engage Barth as a conversation partner in comparative theological work by placing his dialectical understanding of revelation as the veiling and unveiling of God in conversation with Ash’arite Sunni thinking about God and revelation, specifically Abu Hamid al-Ghazali’s Al-Maqsad al-Asna (The 99 Beautiful Names of God). Both theologians affirm the particularity of revelation that comes only from God, and both reject the possibilities of any analogy of being (analogia entis). For both, to speak rightly about God is emphatically to speak “after revelation”—so analogy and reason may be used, but only in light of what God has first revealed (in Jesus Christ or in the Qur’an).

Az ember istenképűsége, mint létanalógia

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-112
Author(s):  
Csaba Tódor
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
The Other ◽  
Analogy Of Being ◽  
The World ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Analogia Entis ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
Contemporary Interpretation

"The Imago Dei as an Interpretation of the Analogy of Being. Regular theological examination of human nature seems to be the exploding germ of a longer reflection and analysis. My expectations of this study, and hopefully also of the following ones, is that the crisis and uncertainty into which our churches have drifted can (and should) be the subject of theological inquiry. If we keep our study in the right trajectory, then, hopefully, a new light will be shed on the practical aspects of our church life as well. We need to show the world that the God we believe in has remained an active and immanent force in human lives and that there is a reason for a pure, diverse, and substantial unity of the world and existence. This monotheism, however, must be polar, in which the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit have their place as elements of analogy in the interaction of which the beauty and efficiency of service can be renewed and given a new meaning. This analysis implies a simultaneous two-way approach. On the one hand, it should be a God-centred approach that simultaneously embraces the realities of the horizontal world, and, on the other hand, in the vertical-horizontal pattern, it leaves room for a contemporary interpretation of the concept of analogia entis. I am aware that there has been an attempt to do this in the twentieth century. The reference to the dialogue between Karl Barth and Urs von Balthasar could serve as a good example of a fruitful conversation for the benefit of our spiritual and institutional lives. Together with Barth, the other “dialectical” theologian hoped and opened their dialogue in the hope of a “true rebirth of Protestantism”. The dialogues of the last century therefore must be the driving force behind the dialogues of today. Keywords: ecclesiology, relational theology, individuality, contextuality, God’s immanence- transcendence "

The Parable of God

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 215-237
Author(s):  
Kendall Cox
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Prodigal Son

Abstract In the middle of his account of justification and sanctification, Karl Barth turns to Luke 15:11–32, the Parable of the Lost or Prodigal Son. Interpreting it in the context of the whole Gospel, he draws an apparently unprecedented association between Jesus Christ and the younger son, who goes into the far country and squanders his existence. This provocative christological reading arises from a profoundly intertextual imagination, and its coherence emerges as it is aligned along the referential correlates Barth evokes. In his comprehensive theological retelling, this paradigmatic tale of grace becomes the parable not only of reconciliation, but also of election, and finally of God.

scholarly journals “God and the gods”: Faith and human-made idols in the theology of Karl Barth

2007 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
I.W.C. Van Wyk
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
National Socialism ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Liberal Theology ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Theological Thinking

The First Commandment played an important role in the theology of Karl Barth. His personal obedience to this commandment contributed to his realization that one cannot be comfortable with the Liberal theology of the early twentieth century and accept the theological thinking that supported National Socialism. The First Commandment opened his eyes to see the idols, worldviews, ideologies and evil of his lifetime. The First Commandment is always in the background of his theology that concentrates on God’s revelation in Jesus Christ. Only two of his lectures specifically concentrated on the First Commandment, only one of which was published. Barth, understood the First Commandment as an axiom of theology. It is self-evident; a cornerstone and critical guideline for any theology that is built upon the biblical message. The article argues that if this aspect of Barth’s theology received attention in the Nederduitsch Hervormde Church, we would most probably have been saved from the conflicts concerning the ideology of apartheid and the “people’s church”.

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.

scholarly journals Wie is die sondaar? Die beskouing van Karl Barth

1994 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
F. J. Van Zyl
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Previous Article ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Death Of Jesus ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Real Essence

Who is the sinner? The view of Karl Barth The previous article dealt with Barth’s view of the knowledge and real essence of sin, while this one focus on his view of the human being as sinner. In accordance with his christological approach to all theological matters, Barth presents us with a description of the image and character of the sinner as mirrored by the obedient suffering and death of Jesus Christ on the cross in the place of all sinners of all times - past, present and future. The price that God paid in surrendering his only Son to such suffering, indicates the enormous guilt and baseness of every sinner. Every human being is utterly insolvent and can only be delivered from sin through God’s graceful remission of siru

Barth and Reformation Theology

2019 ◽  
pp. 100-115
Author(s):  
Randall C. Zachman
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Protestant Reformation ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Reformation Theology ◽  
The One ◽  
The Church ◽  
Free Word

Karl Barth seeks to restore the Gospel to the centre of Protestant theology by orienting dogmatic theology to the witness of the prophetic and apostolic authors of Scripture and to the theology of the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation. Barth especially endorses Luther’s claim that the proclamation of the living and free Word of God in Jesus Christ lies at the heart of the commission laid on the church, and that the task of theology is to test the truth of that proclamation. However, Barth becomes increasingly critical of Luther and Calvin when they distinguish God revealed in Jesus Christ from God in Godself and when they distinguish a Word of God in Scripture—be it a Word of the Creator or the Word as Law—that is distinct from the one Word of God, Jesus Christ. Barth also disagrees with Luther and Calvin regarding the sacraments, insisting at the end of his career that Jesus Christ is the one and only sacrament of God.

Church Dogmatics by Karl Barth

1962 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-83
Author(s):  
Daniel L. Deegan
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Natural Theology ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Divine Providence ◽  
Theological Interpretation ◽  
Church Dogmatics ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
In Christ ◽  
Universal Rule

In this third part of volume III of his Dogmatics Barth sets forth the doctrine of divine providence as the objective and universal rule of God which establishes and encompasses but does not absorb the existence of the person or community which becomes the object of His preservation. Barth's steadfast aim has been to produce a theology dominated by its object, Jesus Christ. This part of the Dogmatics is no exception, for here he argues that the order of being and the order of knowledge start with the event of God's action in Christ. Hence he does not speak of a natural theology with an independent cosmological interest in the work of divine preservation, for he insists that Scripture is differently orientated. It does not witness simply to the highest being as first cause; it witnesses primarily to the Lord of history, the God of the Covenant. This means that the doctrine of providence does not become a Weltanschauung. What Barth says concerning this problem in C.D.III.3 should be read in conjunction with C.D.III.2, pp. 3ff. Because he affirms that the central concern of theology is the relation of God and man established in Jesus Christ he regards cosmology as a peripheral concern arid draws the line against attempts to integrate scientific views and theological interpretation into a comprehensive Weltanschauung. Yet he readily admits that the natural sciences which know their limits have their appropriate place in elucidating the nature of man against the background of creation.

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