Barth's ethics of reconciliation
John Webster provides a major scholarly analysis 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
History
ix, 238 pages ; 23 cm
9780521044110, 9780521474993, 0521044111, 052147499X
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Revelation and God
Creation and reconciliation
The moral field
Baptism with the Holy Spirit
Baptism with water
The Christian life
'The room of the Gospel': Barth's moral ontology