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How to read Karl Barth : the shape of his theology /

This critical study decodes the most cryptic and elusive patterns of Karl Barth's dialectic. Hunsinger not only offers a new and authoritative interpretation of Barth's mature theology, but also places Barth's work in relation to contemporary discussions of truth, justified belief, do...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hunsinger, George
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1991.
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  • Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Abbreviations; Prologue: Readings Old and New-a Critique; PART I: The Motifs in Survey: The Shaping of Doctrine in the Church Dogmatics; CHAPTER 1: Four Motifs: A Preliminary Survey; The Motif of Actualism; The Motif of Particularism; The Motif of Objectivism; The Motif of Personalism; CHAPTER 2: Two More Motifs: A Detailed Survey; The Motif of Realism; The Motif of Rationalism; No Knowledge Without Faith; No Neutrality; No Speculation; No Apologetics; No System; Summary; No Faith Without Knowledge.
  • The Procedure of DerivingThe Procedure of Grounding; The Procedure of Ordering; The Procedure of Testing; The Procedure of Assimilating; Summary; PART II: The Motifs Applied: The Conception of Truth in the Church Dogmatics; CHAPTER 3: Truth as Event and as Unique in Kind; Actualism: Truth as Event; Particularism: Truth as Unique in Kind; God's Unique Relation to Other Realities; The Unique Relation of Other Realities to God; CHAPTER 4: Truth as Mediated: Revelation; Revelational Objectivism: The General Aspect; Mediation Means Hiddenness in the Midst of Revelation.
  • God's Incomprehensibility: A Theological, Not a Philosophical, ConceptionMediation Means Vulnerability to Rejection; Excursus: Three Larger Formal Patterns in the Church Dogmatics (the Chalcedonian, the Trinitarian, and the Hegelian); Mediation Means Divine Vulnerability: Conclusion; Mediation Means Protectiveness and Solicitude Toward Humanity; Revelational Objectivism: The Particular Aspect; Human Incapacity for Revelation and the Need for Mediated Subjectivity; Natural Theology in the Church as a Sign of Human Unreadiness for Grace; Mediated Subjectivity as the Solution to Human Incapacity.
  • CHAPTER 5: Truth as Mediated: SalvationThe Central Question: How Is What Occurs in Christ Related to What Occurs in Us?; "In Christ" as the Decisive Locus of Salvation; The Reality of Salvation in Christ; The Hiddenness of Salvation in Christ; The Ambiguity of Experience as a Sign of the Hiddenness of Salvation; The Promised Future of Salvation in Christ; The Universality of Salvation in Christ; Salvation in Christ: Summary; Objectivist Soteriology Differentiated from Existentialist Soteriology; Against Existential Soteriology: The Individualistic Type.
  • Against Existential Soteriology: The Social TypeAgainst Existential Soteriology: The Sacramental Type; Against Existential Soteriology: The Problem of Instrumentalism; Excursus: What Barth's Objectivist Conception Needs to Show, How it Might be Threatened, and How It Might Respond; Conclusion: The Two Types of Soteriology and the Two Forms of Objectivism Each Compared; CHAPTER 6: Truth as Encounter; Vocation as a Matter of Encounter; Vocation as a Matter of Integrity;>Vocation as a Matter of Mutual Self-Involvement; Excursus: How Are the Cognitive and Performative Aspects of Truth Related?