Barth's Ethics of ReconciliationJohn Webster provides a major scholarly analysis, the first in any language, of the final sections of the Church Dogmatics. He focuses on the theme of human agency in Barth's late ethics and doctrine of baptism, placing the discussion in the context of an interpretation of the Dogmatics as an intrinsically ethical dogmatics. The first two chapters survey the themes of agency, covenant, and human reality in the Dogmatics as a whole; later chapters give a thorough analysis of Church Dogmatics IV/4 and the posthumously published text The Christian Life. A final chapter examines the significance of Barth's work for contemporary accounts of moral selfhood. The book is important not only for a detailed analysis of a neglected part of Barth's oeuvre, but also because it casts into question much of what has hitherto been written about Barth's ethical dogmatics. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Revelation and God | 20 |
Creation and reconciliation | 59 |
The moral field | 99 |
Baptism with the Holy Spirit | 116 |
Baptism with water | 148 |
The Christian life | 174 |
Barths moral ontology | 214 |
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act of God activity affirmation agency answer anthropology aseity baptism fragment baptism with water Barth writes Barth's account Barth's doctrine Barth's ethics Barth's moral basis Bultmann called character Christian baptism Christian ethics Christian theology Christological ChrL Church Dogmatics claim command concept concerning confession context correspondence covenant covenantal creature critique decision distinction divine act divine action divine change divine grace doctrine of reconciliation ecclesiology election eschatological essay ethics of reconciliation event existence exposition expressivism faith Father freedom God's action Gütersloh hallowing history of Jesus Holy Spirit human action human acts human agent human person Ibid insistence interpretation invocation Jesus Christ Jüngel Karl Barth Karl Barths Lehre Kingdom language London Lord's Prayer means mediation narrative nature notion obedience objective ontological pneumatology possibility prayer question realise reality realm reference relation response revelation sacramental sense simply soteriology specific sphere T. F. Torrance Taufe theme theological ethics water-baptism