Crisis and Reorientation: Karl Barth’s Römerbrief in the Cultural and Intellectual Context of Post WWI Europe

ISBN-13: 9783031276767 / Angielski

Christine Svinth-Værge Põder; Sigurd Baark

Opis

This book uses Karl Barth’s Der Römerbrief (1922) as a prism through which to explore the role of religion and its interactions with cultural and political thought in the turbulent interwar period in Europe. One of the most influential books in twentieth-century protestant theology, Der Römerbrief found Barth arguing that the crisis of the time was grounded in an even more profound crisis that pertained to the human condition as such. While much research has been conducted on Der Römerbrief, most of it has focused on the book’s explicit theology. The aim of the present volume is to mark the centenary of this seminal book with a broader investigation into the movements of thought within Der Römerbrief and its reception and impact within its cultural and intellectual context. This broader approach by a range of Northern European researchers brings attention to interconnections between cultural and theological movements in times of crisis.

Spis treści

Table of contents

 

1.  Crisis and Reorientation – Introduction

By Sigurd Baark and Christine Svinth-Værge Põder

 

Part One: The Weimar Era as Context of Barth’s Römerbrief

 

2. Karl Barth’s Performative Theology: Context and Rhetorics in Der Römerbrief 1922

By Ola Sigurdson

 

3. “As a tangent touching a circle”: Karl Barth and dialectical theologians rethinking time after 1918

By Liisi Keedus

 

4. Prophecy as a political–theological category in Barth’s Römerbrief?

By Christine Svinth-Værge Põder

 

Part Two: Der Römerbrief as Mediator of Currents and Countercurrents

 

5. From Answers to Questions: Barth and Thurneysen on Dostoyevsky

By Sigurd Baark

 

6. The Positive Role of Culture in Barth and Tillich’s Discussion of the Paradox in 1923

By Anne-Milla Wichmann Kristensen

 

7. An Apocalyptic Tone: Karl Barth’s Der Römerbrief  between neo-Kantian and hermeneutic paradigms of orientation

By Carsten Pallesen

 

8. Revisiting the crisis theology of Karl Barth in light of Søren Kierkegaard in a new time of crisis

By Anne Louise Nielsen

 

Part Three: Crisis and Reorientation. Cultural and Political Impact, Displacements and New Trajectories 

 

9. The Voice of the Preacher: Literary and Rhetorical Aspects of Der Römerbrief

By Håkan Möller

 

10. A Literary Reception of Karl Barth’s Römerbrief: On Barthianism in John Updike’s Roger’s Version

By Bent Flemming Nielsen

 

11. “Theology After Gulag and Beyond”: How Can Karl Barth’s Theology Contribute to Reorientation in the Contemporary European Crisis? A post-Soviet Case

By Katya Tolstaya,

O autorze

​Christine Svinth-Værge Põder teaches Systematic Theology at the Univeristy of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is the author of Doxological Hiddenness. The Fundamental Theological Significance of Prayer in Karl Barth’s Work, (2009), and editor of Mellem tiderne - fem dialektiske teologer, (2015). 

Sigurd Baark teaches Systematic Theology at the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the author of The Affirmations of Reason: on Karl Barth’s Speculative Theology (2018). 

Blurb

This book uses Karl Barth’s Der Römerbrief (1922) as a prism through which to explore the role of religion and its interactions with cultural and political thought in the turbulent interwar period in Europe. One of the most influential books in twentieth-century protestant theology, Der Römerbrief found Barth arguing that the crisis of the time was grounded in an even more profound crisis that pertained to the human condition as such. While much research has been conducted on Der Römerbrief, most of it has focused on the book’s explicit theology. The aim of the present volume is to mark the centenary of this seminal book with a broader investigation into the movements of thought within Der Römerbrief and its reception and impact within its cultural and intellectual context. This broader approach by a range of Northern European researchers brings attention to interconnections between cultural and theological movements in times of crisis.

​Christine Svinth-Værge Põder teaches Systematic Theology at the Univeristy of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is the author of Doxological Hiddenness. The Fundamental Theological Significance of Prayer in Karl Barth’s Work, (2009), and editor of Mellem tiderne - fem dialektiske teologer, (2015). 

Sigurd Baark teaches Systematic Theology at the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the author of The Affirmations of Reason: on Karl Barth’s Speculative Theology (2018).