Church Dogmatics, Volume 4: The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Part 4
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 fourth part of Church Dogmatics, Volume 4
- Examines the foundation of the Christian life
- Investigates baptism with the Holy Spirit and with water
Contents
- The Foundation of the Christian Life
- Baptism with the Holy Spirit
- Baptism with Water
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.
Product Details
- Title: Church Dogmatics, Volume 4: The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Part 4
- Author: Karl Barth
- Editors: Thomas F. Torrance and Geoffrey Bromiley
- Publisher: T&T Clark International
- Publication Date: 2004
- Pages: 240
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
“If God’s Law is written on his heart, if his heart is circumcised, if he acquires a new and different heart, this means that he himself, in so far as this has a decisive bearing on his whole being and act, becomes another man.” (Page 8)
“As I see it, baptism with the Spirit and fire relates to the commencement of liberation for this Christian and churchly responsibility, and baptism with water relates to the entering of Christians and the community upon its discharge.” (Page x)
“We ask concerning the origin, beginning and initiation of the faithfulness of man which replies and corresponds to the faithfulness of God.” (Page 3)
“In face of the exegetical conclusions in my son’s book, I have had to abandon the ‘sacramental’ understanding of baptism, which I still maintained fundamentally in 1943, in so far as the reference is to the work of the candidates and the community which baptises them.” (Page x)
“The point of the contrast hazarded by Paul here is that now, in the Messianic age of fulfilment, the men intimated in Old Testament prophecy are to be found—unfortunately in only small numbers from among Israel, but in large numbers from among the Gentiles.” (Page 8)
- Title: Church Dogmatics, Volume 4: The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Part 4
- 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:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Theology, doctrinal
- ISBNs: 9780567051592, 0567051595
- Resource ID: LLS:CHRCHDOG4P4
- Resource Type: Systematic Theology
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:19:42Z