The Knowledge of God and the Service of God according to the Teaching of the Reformation

by Karl Barth

Publisher:

Wipf and Stock

, 2005

Overview

This volume presents Karl Barth’s lectures as part of the prestigious Gifford lectureship in which he focuses on the knowledge and service of God, relating particularly to the 1560 Scottish Reformation. He notes: “These lectures on that teaching [of the Reformed church on natural theology] will not take the form of an independent outline, but will be connected with a ‘document’ of the Reformation. Further, taking into account the specifically Scottish character of the Gifford foundation, this document will be a document of the ‘Scottish’ Reformation. . . . I am letting John Knox and his friend speak in their Confessio Scotica of 1560. This is not to take the form of an historical analysis of the Scottish Confession, but that of a theological paraphrase and elucidation of the document as it speaks today and as we today by a careful objective examination of its content can hear it speak.”

Key Features

• Featues a key title from Karl Barth
• Examines an important topic from a Reformed twentieth-century perspective
• Provides biblical exegesis combined with deep concern for theological orthodoxy'

Product Details

• Title: The Knowledge of God and the Service of God according to the Teaching of the Reformation
• Author: Karl Barth
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Print Publication Date: 2005
• Logos Release Date: 2015
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Scottish Confession of Faith (1560); Theology, doctrinal; Reformed Church › Doctrines
• ISBNs: 9781597524278, 1597524271, 9780404604950, 0404604951
• Resource ID: LLS:KNWLDGGDTRFRMTN
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:02:54Z

About Karl Barth

Karl Barth (May 10, 1886–December 10, 1968) was a twentieth-century Swiss theologian in the Reformed tradition. A vigorous opponent of theological liberalism and modernism, he is sometimes called “the Father of Neo-Orthodoxy.”