The Cambridge Companion to Karl Barth

by Edited by John Webster

• ISBN13: 9780521585606
• ISBN10: 0521585600
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-23
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This authoritative book offers challenging yet accessible accounts of the major features of Barth's theological work, especially as it has become available through the publication of his collected works, and interacts with the best of contemporary Barth scholarship. It assesses Barth's significance for contemporary constructive theology, and his place in the history of twentieth-century Christian thought. The Companion both sums up and extends recent renewed interest in Barth's theology, especially in English-speaking theology, and shows him to be once again a major voice in constructive theology.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	ix
Preface	xiii
Abbreviations	xv
Introducing Barth	1	(16)
John Webster
Theology	17	(20)
Christoph Schwobel
Revelation	37	(20)
Trevor Hart
The Bible	57	(15)
Francis Watson
The Trinity	72	(20)
Alan Torrance
Grace and being: the role of God's gracious election in Karl Barth's theological ontology	92	(19)
Bruce McCormack
Creation and providence	111	(16)
Kathryn Tanner
Karl Barth's Christology: its basic Chalcedonian character	127	(16)
George Hunsinger
Salvation	143	(16)
Colin Gunton
The humanity of the human person in Karl Barth's anthropology	159	(18)
Wolf Krotke
The mediator of communion: Karl Barth's doctrine of the Holy Spirit	177	(18)
George Hunsinger
Christian community, baptism, and Lord's Supper	195	(17)
James J. Buckley
Barth's trinitarian ethic	212	(16)
Nigel Biggar
Karl Barth and politics	228	(15)
William Werpehowski
Religion and the religions	243	(15)
J. A. Di Noia, O.P.
Barth and feminism	258	(16)
Katherine Sonderegger
Barth, modernity, and postmodernity	274	(22)
Graham Ward
Karl Barth: a personal engagement	296	(11)
Alasdair I. C. Heron
Index	307