2. Reinhold Niebuhr, Karl Barth, and the Crises of War and Capitalism

2010 ◽  
pp. 29-45
Keyword(s):  
Karl Barth ◽  
Reinhold Niebuhr

Reinhold Niebuhr and Karl Barth on the Relevance of Theology

1963 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-55
Author(s):  
Thomas E. McCollough
Keyword(s):  
Karl Barth ◽  
Reinhold Niebuhr

Realists and Pacifists

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Ruse
Keyword(s):  
Just War ◽  
Just War Theory ◽  
Original Sin ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Great War ◽  
Reinhold Niebuhr ◽  
Christian Realism ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Christian Leaders

Christians, in the years after the Great War until the end of the Second War, continued divided. There were those who regretted war but felt it sometimes necessary. Prominent here was the American Lutheran theologian, Reinhold Niebuhr. His “Christian realism” started with original sin but did not follow a strict just-war-theory line. He argued that privately we ought to follow Jesus and eschew violence, but as members of society we sometimes need to fight. Karl Barth, who broke from his mentor Adolf von Harnack over the morality of the First War, stood against the Nazis and, although also not a just war theorist, argued the necessity of conflict against Hitler. Countering all of these were the pacifists, notably in America the preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick, and in England the Anglican priest Dick Sheppard. When war was again declared in 1939, the Christian leaders on both sides again took up the call to arms in the name of Jesus. A notable exception was the still-undergraduate, recent Catholic convert, future Wittgensteinian philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe, who was no pacifist but who argued that entering the conflict against Hitler did not fill the requirements demanded of an Augustinian just war.

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

2021 ◽  
pp. 110-126
Author(s):  
Joshua Mauldin
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Social Ethics ◽  
Karl Barth ◽  
Human Response ◽  
Reinhold Niebuhr ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Parallel Lives ◽  
Protestant Liberalism ◽  
The Relationship

Reinhold Niebuhr and Karl Barth lived remarkably parallel lives. Both became disillusioned with the nineteenth-century Protestant liberalism they had inherited, but they took their departure from liberalism in different directions. Niebuhr’s focus on social ethics gave him an interest in the ethical implications of Barth’s theology, but Barth’s approach to dogmatics led him to be less interested in Niebuhr’s approach to ethics and apologetic theology. Commentators have often assumed that Niebuhr and Barth were engaged in answering a common question, such that we could adjudicate who was right and who was wrong, but the relationship between their projects is more complicated. Niebuhr focused on immanent criticism of the dogmas of a secular age, seeking to demonstrate how these ways of thinking could not sufficiently account for the challenges and aspirations of human nature and destiny. Eschewing this apologetic approach, Barth pursued the task of dogmatics as a human response to God’s revelation and as an ongoing test of the Church’s proclamation. Niebuhr and Barth were engaged in differing projects, which because of their distinct goals, can be seen as complementary.

God and Creation in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyler R. Wittman
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Karl Barth
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