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Church Dogmatics, Volume 4: The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Part 3.1

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, 2004
ISBN: 9780567051899
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Overview

Described by Pope Pius XII as the most important theologian since Thomas Aquinas, the Swiss pastor and theologian, Karl Barth, continues to be a major influence on students, scholars, and preachers today. Barth’s theology found its expression mainly through his closely reasoned 14-part magnum opus, Die Kirchliche Dogmatik. Having taken over 30 years to write, the Church Dogmatics is regarded as one of the most important theological works of all time, and represents the pinnacle of Barth’s achievement as a theologian.

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Key Features

  • Provides a translation of Karl Barth’s third part of Church Dogmatics, Volume 4
  • Studies the glory of Jesus as Mediator
  • Investigates the falsehood and condemnation of man

Contents

  • Jesus Christ, The True Witness
    • The Glory of the Mediator
      • The Third Problem of the Doctrine of Reconciliation
      • The Light of Life
      • Jesus is Victor
      • The Promise of the Spirit
    • The Falsehood and Condemnation of Man
      • The True Witness
      • The Falsehood of Man
      • The Condemnation of Man

Praise for the Print Edition

[Barth] undoubtedly is one of the giants in the history of theology.

—Christianity Today

There are at least three key ideas in [Barth’s] early thought critical for his later writings. The first is the absolute transcendent sovereign God in contrast to sin-dominated mankind. Second is a dialectical theological method which poses truth as a series of paradoxes. For example, the infinite became the finite; eternity entered time; God became human. Such paradoxes create tension, in which one finds both a crisis and truth. The crisis, the third idea, involves humans. The individual discovers in the tension of the dialectic a crisis of existence, judgment, separation, belief/unbelief, acceptance/rejection of the ultimate truth of God concerning mankind as revealed in the Word.

—Biographical entries from Evangelical Dictionary of Theology

Barth’s greatest influence was theological, with his emphasis on God’s sovereignty placing him firmly in the Reformed (Calvinistic) tradition. He differed radically from the mainstream of continental European theology, rejecting both its subjective emphasis on religious experience and the prevalent idea that Christian doctrine is subject to, or limited by, its historical origins. By reaffirming what Kierkegaard had called an ‘infinite qualitative difference’ between God and humankind, Barth rescued theology from captivity to anthropology—that is, he reasserted God’s reality and sovereignty over human knowledge or imagination.

—Who’s Who in Christian History

Product Details

  • Title: Church Dogmatics, Volume 4: The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Part 3.1
  • Author: Karl Barth
  • Editors: Thomas F. Torrance and Geoffrey Bromiley
  • Publisher: T&T Clark International
  • Publication Date: 2004
  • Pages: 496

About Karl Barth

Karl Barth (1886–1968), a Swiss Protestant theologian and pastor, was one of the leading thinkers of twentieth-century theology, described by Pope Pius XII as the most important theologian since Thomas Aquinas. He helped to found the Confessing Church and his thinking formed the theological framework for the Barmen Declaration. He taught in Germany, where he opposed the Nazi regime. In 1935, when he refused to take the oath of allegiance to Adolf Hitler, he was retired from his position at the University of Bonn and deported to Switzerland. There he continued to write and develop his theology.

Barth’s work and influence resulted in the formation of what came to be known as neo-orthodoxy. For Barth, modern theology, with its assent to science, immanent philosophy, and general culture and with its stress on feeling, was marked by indifference to the word of God and to the revelation of God in Jesus, which he thought should be the central concern of theology.

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“‘Reconciliation’ in the Christian sense of the word—the reconciliation of which we have the attestation in the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, and in the recognition and proclamation of which the Christian community has its existence—is the history in which God concludes and confirms His covenant with man, maintaining and carrying it to its goal in spite of every threat.” (Page 3)

“I maintain that for me thinking is christological only when it consists in the perception, comprehension, understanding and estimation of the reality of the living person of Jesus Christ as attested by Holy Scripture, in attentiveness to the range and significance of His existence, in openness to His self-disclosure, in consistency in following Him as is demanded.” (Page 174)

“The basic and all-decisive factor is that, no matter what the result may be or what may be achieved or effected, it displays and proclaims itself as truth, and indeed as the truth. For it is the event—we speak of Jesus Christ—in which the covenant between God and man is sealed on both sides, in which peace is established both from above and from below, and in which the justification and sanctification of man are both accomplished, whether or not there is response in the faith and love of a single individual.” (Page 8)

“With this third note, and particularly its final development, we have clearly reached the sphere of our particular theme. Everything that has to be said about the glory of the Mediator, and first about the light of life, might well be summed up in the statement that, as He lives, Jesus Christ speaks for Himself, that He is His own authentic Witness, that of Himself He grounds and summons and creates knowledge of Himself and His life, making it actual and therefore possible.” (Page 46)

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