Justification: The Doctrine of Karl Barth and a Catholic Reflection

by Kung, Hans

• ISBN13: 9780664224462
• ISBN10: 0664224466
• Edition: 40th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-05-01
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pr

Summary

Now, forty years since its original publication, Hans Kung's groundbreaking study--acclaimed as a model for ecumenical discussion--has become a classic work. Looking at the doctrine of justification as understood by the Protestant theologian Karl Barth in comparison to classic Roman Catholic theology, Kung found that the two had similar ideas about the main elements of justification. He argued there is fundamental agreement between Catholicism and Barth's doctrine and that the somewhat divergent viewpoints "would not warrant a division in the Church." This anniversary edition now features a new essay assessing Kung's work in light of contemporary ecumenical dialogues between Roman Catholics and Protestants.

Author Biography

Hans Kung is President of the Global Ethic Foundation and Professor Emeritus of Ecumenical Theology at the University of Tubingen.

Table of Contents

For the 40th Anniversary Edition of Justification	ix
Hans Kung
Justification: Then and Now	xv
Hermann Haring
Justification Today: An Introductory Chapter to the New Edition	xxxvii
Preface to the First English Edition	lvii
Acknowledgments	lxiii
Abbreviations	lxv
A Letter to the Author	lxvii
Introduction	lxxi
Part One. Karl Barth's Theology of Justification
A. Justification and Salvation-History
1. An Alien Language	3	(3)
Is Barth incomprehensible?
Problem of the thought form
Holy Scripture
2. Justification: What Is the Central Problem?	6	(3)
Luther
Justification as fundamental problem
Justification as particular problem
3. Justification in the Total Context of Barth's Theology	9	(4)
Prolegomena
God in Jesus Christ
His work
4. The Eternal Foundation of Justification	13	(5)
Election in Jesus Christ
God's grace and the independence of the creature
The living God
5. The Covenant Prerequisite for Justification	18	(5)
Covenant and creation
Creation as grace
Creation as justification
6. Justification in Reconciliation-The Fulfillment of the Broken Covenant	23	(5)
Covenant-faithfulness versus covenant-breaking
Justification in reconciliation
7. Prospect and Retrospect	28
B. The Achievement of Justification
8. Jesus Christ-Our Justification	35	(6)
God who became man
The judge who was judged
God's judgment
9. The Rejection of the Sinner	41	(5)
The double sense of the judgment
Sin in the light of the Crucified One
Sin is pride
10. Fallen Man	46	(8)
The sinner remains man
And the freedom of man?
The radicality, totality, universality of sin
11. God's Justice Against the Injustice of Man	54	(5)
God is just And He executes justice
The transition from death to life
12. An Alien Justice-Our Own Justice	59	(4)
The Self-enlistment of God
Our very own history
13. The Just Man	63	(6)
The dual orientation
The beginning of justification
The consummation of justification
Forgiveness of sins, filial relationship to God, the heavenly inheritance
14. Justification and Sanctification	69	(3)
The interior justifying
Unity in diversity
The order of things
15. Through Faith Alone	72	(7)
God's otherness in the event of justification
The disqualification of works
Justified by faith
16. Love and Works	79	(3)
Faith active through love
Love as consequence of faith
The praise of works
17. The Foundation of Christian Existence	82	(7)
The presence of the Holy Spirit
The Church
The constituting of the new being
18. The Justification of Man as the Self-justification of God	89	(3)
The justice of the Creator and Covenant-Lord
The right of the Son
The right of the Father
19. Open Questions	92	(7)
Part Two. An Attempt at a Catholic Response
A. Fundamentals
20. The Theology of Justification Past and Present	99	(24)
Dialogue instead of dialectic
Dogma in development
The polemic aspect of definitions
Anthropocentricity of Trent
The theology of the textbooks
Holy Scripture the principal source of Catholic theology
The meaning of tradition
Our method-Barthian freedom of inquiry?
21. The Redeemer Jesus Christ	123	(12)
Christocentricity
The pre-existence of the Redeemer
The prehistory of the Church
22. Creation as a Salvation Event	135	(13)
Creation in Christ according to Scripture
In the Catholic tradition
Nothing apart from Christ
Stages
Why creation in Jesus Christ?
23. Sin and Death in the Plan of Salvation	148	(23)
The sinner has forfeited life
Why does he continue to exist?
Forbearance and grace
Creation in Christ
Death as salvation or calamity
Thomism and Scotism
Athanasius
24. The Wretchedness of Sin	171	(9)
Sin is always against Christ and His body
The power and impotence of sin
The incapacity of everyform of self-justification
25. The Ruin of Man	180	(10)
The forfeiture of freedom
Sinner at heart
The acts of the sinner
26. A Variety of Foundations?	190	(5)
B. The Reality of Justification
27. Grace as Graciousness	195	(13)
Polemics
Exegetical analysis
The personal and the theocentric aspects
Unity in Christ and His body
The pardon of man Misunderstandings
28. The Declaration of the Sinner's Justice	208	(14)
Justification is the declaration of justice
The making just
Justification in the history of dogma
29. Justification in Christ's Death and Resurrection	222	(14)
The judgment of God
"Justification" and "redemption"
The accent on the "objective"
The critique of Trent?
30. Simul lustus et Peccator	236	(13)
The Catholic "simul"
In Trent and in Holy Scripture
The past, covetousness, world and Church
31. Sola Fide	249	(15)
In the Catholic tradition
Works excluded
Faith as trust in Jesus Christ
Fides viva
Baptism and the Church
Essential change
32. Soli Deo Gloria	264	(11)
The co-operation of man
Justification and sanctification
Merit
33. Divided in Faith?	275	(10)
Excursus: The Redeemer in God's Eternity	285	(18)
Creation and Incarnation
Assumptio humanitatis temporalis in Deum aeternum
Jesus Christ in the bosom of the Father
Scripture
The Fathers
The work of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament
Mary
Mysterium
Bibliography	303	(20)
Index	323