Church Dogmatics, Volume 1: The Doctrine of the Word of God, Part 2
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 second part of Church Dogmatics, Volume 1
- Covers the role of Scripture in the church
- Examines the mission and function of the church
Contents
- The Revelation of God
- Part 2: The Incarnation of the Word
- Part 3: The Outpouring of the Holy Spirit
- Holy Scripture
- The Word of God for the Church
- Authority in the Church
- Freedom in the Church
- The Proclamation of the Church
- The Mission of the Church
- Dogmatics as a Function of the Hearing Church
- Dogmatics as a Function of the Teaching Church
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
[Future generations of theological students will have to reckon with Barth’s work just as they have had to come to grips with Augustins, Aquinas, Calvin, and Schleiermacher...The chief merit of his work lies not in the doctrinal positions he has taken—though they are important—but in the challenge to a fresh hearing of God’s Word in Scripture by all who are concerned for pure doctrine in the preaching of the church.
—Interpretation
Product Details
- Title: Church Dogmatics, Volume 1: The Doctrine of the Word of God, Part 2
- Author: Karl Barth
- Editors: Thomas F. Torrance and Geoffrey Bromiley
- Publisher: T&T Clark International
- Publication Date: 2004
- Pages: 928
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.
Top Highlights
“God Himself and God alone turns man into a recipient of His revelation—but He does so in a definite area, and this area, if we may now combine the Old Testament and the New Testament, is the area of the Church.” (Page 210)
“God is not prevented either by His own deity or by our humanity and sinfulness from being our God and having intercourse with us as with His own. On the contrary, He is free for us and in us. That is the central content of the doctrine of Christ and of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit. Christology and Pneumatology are one in being the knowledge and praise of the grace of God. But the grace of God is just His freedom, unhindered either by Himself or by us.” (Pages 2–3)
“But a better way of putting the question is to ask, (1) how far God in His revelation is free for us, i.e., free to reveal Himself to us, free to be our God without at the same time ceasing to be God the Lord; and (2) how far God in His revelation is also free in us, i.e., free to deal with us as His own, who belong to Him and obey Him, although we are but men, and sinful men at that.” (Page 2)
“‘Incarnation of the Word’ asserts the presence of God in our World and as a member of this world, as a Man among men. It is thus God’s revelation to us, and our reconciliation with Him. That this revelation and reconciliation have already taken place is the content of the Christmas message.” (Pages 172–173)
“We reject Mariology, (1) because it is an arbitrary innovation in the face of Scripture and the early Church, and (2) because this innovation consists essentially in a falsification of Christian truth.” (Page 143)
- Title: Church Dogmatics, Volume 1: The Doctrine of the Word of God, Part 2
- Authors: Karl Barth, Geoffrey William Bromiley, Thomas F. Torrance
- Series: Barth’s Church Dogmatics
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Print Publication Date: 2004
- Logos Release Date: 2008
- Era: era:modern
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Theology, doctrinal
- ISBNs: 9780567050694, 0567050696
- Resource ID: LLS:CHRCHDOG1P2
- Resource Type: Systematic Theology
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:19:31Z