Karl Barth's Critically Realistic Dialectical Theology: Its Genesis and Development 1909-1936

ISBN-13: 9780198269564 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 528 str.

Mccormack

Opis

This book is a major intellectual biography of perhaps the most influential theologian of the twentieth century, Karl Barth. McCormack offers the first full-scale revision of the well-known theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar's seminal interpretation of Barth, which was first published in 1951. Drawing on a wealth of material, much of it unpublished during Barth's lifetime, as well as a thorough acquaintance with the best of recent German scholarship, McCormack demonstrates that the fundamental decision that would control the whole of Barth's development--the turn to a new, critically realistic form of theological "objectivism"--was already made during the years in which Barth was at work on his first commentary on Romans. He further argues that the most significant decisions--both material and methodological--were made in Barth's Gottingen Dogmatics of 1924/5, and not later in the 1931 book on Anselm, as has often been alleged. This unique and important work provides not simply a fresh interpretation of Barth's development, but a new paradigm for understanding the whole of Barth's theology.
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Recenzje

A deep and substantial interpretation of Barth's theological development up to the early volumes of the Church Dogmatics... new interpretative insight... McCormack introduces a real advance in understanding in Barth here, and in particular his modernity... McCormack's book undoubtedly becomes the major English speaking text for Barth interpretation... The book is well written and will interest not only Barth scholars but will hold the attention of those with a great interest in the twentieth century's greatest theologian.