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Church Dogmatics, Volume 4: The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Part 2

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, 2004
ISBN: 9780567051394
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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 4
  • Examines the exaltation, sloth, misery, and sanctification of man
  • Studies the Holy Spirit in the upbuilding of Christian community and love

Contents

  • Jesus Christ, the Servant as Lord
    • The Exaltation of the Son of Man
      • The Second Problem of the Doctrine of Reconciliation
      • The Homecoming of the Son of Man
      • The Royal Man
      • The Direction of the Son
    • The Sloth and Misery of Man
      • The Man of Sin in the Light of the Lordship of the Son of Man
      • The Sloth of Man
      • The Misery of Man
    • The Sanctification of Man
      • Justification and Sanctification
      • The Holy One and the Saints
      • The Call to Discipleship
      • The Awakening to Conversion
      • The Praise of Works
      • The Dignity of the Cross
    • The Holy Spirit and the Upbuilding of the Christian Community
      • The True Church
      • The Growth of the Community
      • The Upholding of the Community
      • The Order of the Community
    • The Holy Spirit and Christian Love
      • The Problem of Christian Love
      • The Basis of Love
      • The Act of Love
      • The Manner of Love

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 2
  • Author: Karl Barth
  • Editors: Thomas F. Torrance and Geoffrey Bromiley
  • Publisher: T&T Clark International
  • Publication Date: 2004
  • Pages: 896

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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“Our starting-point is again the conclusion of our second sub-section—that the sanctification of man consists in fellowship with Jesus the Son of Man, in the power of His call, and in the freedom which we are given in the strength of His Holy Spirit to look to Him and thus to lift up ourselves in spite of the downward drag of our slothful nature.” (Page 553)

“The divine act of atonement accomplished and revealed in Jesus Christ does not consist only in the humiliation of God but in and with this in the exaltation of man. Thus it does not consist only in the fact that God offers Himself up for men; that He, the Judge, allows Himself to be judged in their place, in this way establishing and proclaiming among sinners, and in defiance of their sin, His divine right which is as such the basis of a new right of man before Him. It does not consist, therefore, only in the justification of man. It consists also in the sanctification which is indissolubly bound up with his justification, i.e., in the fact that as He turns to man in defiance of his sin He also, in defiance of his sin, turns man to Himself.” (Page 499)

“But the fact that He is not only a true man, but the true man, is not exhausted by His likeness with all other men. He is not only completely like us, but completely unlike us—and it is only when we add this complementary truth that we realise the full meaning of the vere homo* as it applies to Him. But the unlikeness consists in what must necessarily become, and has become, of ‘human nature’ when He assumed it in likeness with us, of flesh when it became His.” (Page 27)

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