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Church Dogmatics, Volume 3: The Doctrine of Creation, Part 3

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, 2004
ISBN: 9780567050991
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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 3
  • Studies the doctrine of providence
  • Examines heaven, angelology, the ambassadors of God, and their opponents

Contents

  • The Creator and His Creature
    • The Doctrine of Providence, Its Basis and Form
      • The Concept of Divine Providence
      • The Christian Belief in Providence
      • The Christian Doctrine of Providence
    • God the Father as Lord of His Creature
      • The Divine Preserving
      • The Divine Accompanying
      • The Divine Ruling
      • The Christian under the Universal Lordship of God the Father
    • God and Nothingness
      • The Problem of Nothingness
      • The Misconception of Nothingness
      • The Knowledge of Nothingness
      • The Reality of Nothingness
    • The Kingdom of Heaven, the Ambassadors of God and Their Opponents
      • The Limits of Angelology
      • The Kingdom of Heaven
      • The Ambassadors of God and Their Opponents

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 3: The Doctrine of Creation, Part 3
  • Author: Karl Barth
  • Editors: Thomas F. Torrance and Geoffrey Bromiley
  • Publisher: T&T Clark International
  • Publication Date: 2004
  • Pages: 560

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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Top Highlights

“In creation we have to do with the establishment, and in providence with the guaranteeing and determination, of the history of creaturely existence by the will and act of God.” (Volume 3, Number 3, Page 8)

“As distinct from creation, providence is God’s knowledge, will and action in His relation to the creature already made by Him and not to be made again. Providence guarantees and confirms the work of creation. And no creature could be if it did not please God continually to confirm and guarantee and thus to maintain it. This does not mean, however, that He continually creates it afresh. It is presupposed that the work of creation is done, and done perfectly, and therefore concluded. What follows this unique act is first and decisively the history of the covenant which is the meaning, basis and goal of this act. It is the execution of the eternal decree of God’s eternal election of grace.” (Volume 3, Number 3, Page 6)

“When the witness of heavenly beings and all creation really reaches the ear of man, and is taken seriously by the earthly Church, it will be realised that from the Church there is demanded a service which is perhaps more strict and stringent but also more full of promise, and certainly its own and not just a replica of what is done by others.” (Volume 3, Number 3, Page 475)

“Predestination is rather the presupposition, and its fulfilment in history the constitutive centre, of God’s overruling, and the basis and goal of its realisation. In predestination we certainly have to do with the creature under God’s lordship, but with the creature, i.e., man, as the object of the original, central and personal intention of God, with man as the partner in the covenant of grace made by God in and with creation. In providence, on the contrary, we have to do with the creature as such and in general; with God’s active relation to the reality created by and therefore distinct from Himself.” (Volume 3, Number 3, Page 4)

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