Karl Barth and the Analogia Entis

by Johnson, Keith L.

• ISBN13: 9780567441348
• ISBN10: 0567441342
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-06-17
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T & T Clark

Summary

A fascinating new study challenging the classical view of Karl Barth's rejection of the Roman Catholic understanding of analogia entis.

Author Biography

Keith L. Johnson holds a PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary and is Assistant Professor of Theology at Wheaton College, USA.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
The Question at Princeton	p. 1
Von Balthasar and Beyond	p. 3
Answering Two Questions	p. 8
A New Starting Point	p. 11
The Background to the Debate	p. 13
Introduction	p. 13
Barth's Break with Liberalism	p. 15
'The Righteousness of God'	p. 17
Romans I	p. 21
Romans II	p. 26
Przywara: Towards a Renewed Roman Catholic Church	p. 31
Towards the analogia entis	p. 34
'God as the Mystery of the World'	p. 38
'God in Us or Above Us?'	p. 43
A Stage Set for the Future	p. 48
Incarnation and Analogy	p. 51
Introduction	p. 51
Barth at Göttingen	p. 52
The Theology of Zwingli	p. 54
The Theology of the Reformed Confessions	p. 55
The Göttingen Dogmatics	p. 58
Przywara's Religionsphilosophie katholischer Theologie	p. 63
Przywara's Methodology	p. 64
The Problem of God in History	p. 67
The Analogy of Being as the Solution to the Problem	p. 70
Catholicism and History	p. 80
Two Competing yet Related Visions	p. 81
The Nature of Barth's Rejection of the analogia entis	p. 83
Introduction	p. 83
Barth and Przywara in Münster	p. 84
Przywara's Visit to Barth's Seminar	p. 87
Barth's Initial Response: 'Fate and Idea in Theology	p. 93
Theology and Philosophy	p. 94
Barth against Realism	p. 98
Barth and Idealism	p. 103
Returning to Protestant Soil	p. 106
Barth's Second Response: 'The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life'	p. 109
To the Doctrine of God	p. 113
Barth's Rejection of the analogia entis	p. 119
Przywara's Analogia Entis and the 'Invention of the Anti-Christ'	p. 122
Introduction	p. 122
The Prelude to Analogia Entis and the Preface to CD I/1	p. 123
Przywara's Analogia Entis	p. 127
The Failure of Philosophy	p. 128
Two Modes of Knowledge	p. 131
The analogia entis as the Solution to Philosophy's Problems	p. 135
Philosophy, Theology, and Divine Revelation	p. 142
'The Invention of the Anti-Christ'	p. 150
Barth's analogia fidei and Its Implications	p. 158
Introduction	p. 158
Barth's analogia fidei	p. 161
Divine Revelation and the analogia entis	p. 162
'Capacity of the Incapable'	p. 168
Gottlieb Söhngen: 'analogia entis within the analogia fidei'	p. 170
Barth's Response to Söhngen	p. 178
Barth's Extrinsic Analogy of Attribution	p. 182
The Nature of Barth's Change with Regard to the analogia entis	p. 189
Analogy in Covenant	p. 191
Introduction	p. 191
Von Balthasar's Interpretation of Barth	p. 193
Barth's Mature Use of Analogy	p. 201
Creation and Covenant	p. 202
Barth's 'Bracket' and the Doctrine of Justification	p. 207
Analogy in Relation	p. 213
The Culmination of Barth's Analogical Thinking	p. 218
Analogy as Vocation	p. 224
Analogy and the Church for the World	p. 228
Conclusion	p. 231
Bibliography	p. 236
Index	p. 243
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