Synopses & Reviews
Respected scholar John Webster explores Barth's ethical thinking in a variety of his writings, including Barth's treatments of original sin, hope, and freedom in his famous Church Dogmatics, and he demonstrates Barth's concern to spell out how divine grace shapes and restores human agency. Other chapters discuss the missionary activity of the church in relation to Barth's remarkable treatment of the prophetic office of Christ and draw a contrast between Barth and Luther in matters of moral anthropology. Many of the studies included here introduce posthumous texts by Barth which have so far received little attention but which substantially revise the received views of Barth's thinking about ethics and human action.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-219) and index.
Table of Contents
Introducion -- 'Life from the third dimension': Human action in Barth's early ethics -- 'The great disruption': Word of God and moral consciousness in Barth's munster ethics -- 'The firmest grasp of the real': Barth on original sin -- 'Assured and patient and cheerful expectation': Barth on Christian hope as the church's task -- Freedom in limitation: Human freedom and false necessity in Barth -- 'Eloquent and radiant': The prophetic office of christ and the mission of the church -- 'The grammar of doing': Luther and Barth on human agency -- Justification, analogy, and action: Barth anf Luther in jungel's anthropology.