Reading the Gospels with Karl Barth

by Daniel L. Migliore

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 2017

Overview

Over the course of his multivolume Church Dogmatics, Karl Barth not only cites thousands of Scripture texts but also offers extensive exegetical discussion of numerous passages. In this book twelve leading theologians and biblical scholars examine Barth’s exegesis of particular passages in the Gospels. How does Barth’s practice of theological exegesis play out in his reading of the Gospels? What are the fundamental features of Barth’s interpretation of Gospel texts, and to what extent do they enliven theology, biblical studies, and ethics today? Reading the Gospels with Karl Barth explores answers to such questions and offers fresh stimulus for further study and discussion.

Contents

Top Highlights

“God in His love elects another to fellowship with Himself. First and foremost this means that God makes a self-election in favour of this other. He ordains that He should not be entirely self-sufficient as He might be.” (Page 4)

“Predestination means that from all eternity God has determined upon man’s acquittal at His own cost. It means that God has ordained, that in the place of the one acquitted He Himself should be perishing and abandoned and rejected—the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.’²⁶ Predestination in Jesus Christ is the non-rejection of the human being—of all human beings.” (Page 9)

“‘God wills to lose, in order that man may gain. There is a sure and certain salvation for man, and a sure and certain risk for God.” (Page 8)

“God chooses the side of the poor, not because of revenge or retaliation against the rich, but because of hope. God has chosen the poor in order also to redeem the rich. God has chosen the victims in order also to liberate the violent.” (Page 12)

“The jobless and the homeless and the migrants in this unjust world receive the ‘election of grace.’ The lost will be found, the last will be the first, and hope is coming to the desperate.” (Page 12)

Product Details

• Title: Reading the Gospels with Karl Barth
• Author: Daniel L. Migliore
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Print Publication Date: 2017
• Logos Release Date: 2019
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Barth, Karl, 1886-1968 › Congresses; Bible. N.T. Gospels › Criticism, interpretation, etc.--Congresses
• ISBNs: 9780802873637, 0802873634
• Resource ID: LLS:RDNGGSPLSKRBRTH
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T02:36:32Z

About Daniel L. Migliore

Daniel L. Migliore (Ph.D.) is a theologian and author. B.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University. He is ordained in the Presbyterian Church (USA). He regularly teaches and preachers at local congregations in New Brunswick. His areas of reserach include systematic theology, Karl Barth, the Trinity, and Christology. He retired in 2009 as the Charles hodge Professor of Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary.