Barth's Ethics of Reconciliation

Webster, John Bainbridge

Cambridge University Press（2007/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 252 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780521044110
• DDC分類 230.092

Full Description

John Webster provides a major scholarly analysis of the final sections of the Church Dogmatics. He focuses on the theme of human agency in Barth's late ethics and doctrine of baptism, placing the discussion in the context of an interpretation of the Dogmatics as an intrinsically ethical dogmatics. The first two chapters survey the themes of agency, covenant and human reality in the Dogmatics as a whole; later chapters give a thorough analysis of Church Dogmatics IV/4 and the posthumously published text The Christian Life. A final chapter examines the significance of Barth's work for contemporary accounts of moral selfhood. The book is important not only for a detailed analysis of a neglected part of Barth's oeuvre, but also because it casts into question much of what has hitherto been written about Barth's ethical dogmatics.

Contents

A note on references; Introduction; 1. Revelation and God; 2. Creation and reconciliation; 3. The moral field; 4. Baptism with the Holy Spirit; 5. Baptism with water; 6. The Christian life; 7. 'The room of the gospel': Barth's moral ontology; Select secondary bibliography; Index.