Thy Word Is Truth

by Hunsinger, George

• ISBN13: 9780802866745
• ISBN10: 0802866743
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-22
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

Over The past two decades studies on Karl Barth have become increasingly technical. The ironic result is that although Barth wrote chiefly for preachers, scholars have become the primary gate keepers to his rich theological thought.

Author Biography

George Hunsinger is Hazel Thompson McCord Professor of Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, founder of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, and recipient of the 2010 Karl Barth Award from the Union of Evangelical Churches in Ger many. Among his other recent books are The Eucharist and Ecumenism: Let Us Keep the Feast and Torture Is a Moral Issue: Christians, Jews, Muslims, and People of Conscience Speak Out.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. x
Introduction	p. xi
Orientation
Scripture and Tradition in the Theology of Karl Barth	p. 3
The Doctrine of Inspiration and the Reliability of Scripture	p. 20
Postcritical Scriptural Interpretation: Rudolf Smend on Karl Barth	p. 29
Scripture as Realistic Narrative: Karl Barth as Critic of Historical Criticism	p. 49
Exemplification
"A Type of the One to Come": Leviticus 14 and 16 in Barth's Church Dogmatics	p. 67
"Living Righteousness": Karl Barth and the Sermon on the Mount	p. 86
The Same Only Different: Karl Barth's Interpretation of Hebrews 13:8	p. 112
Barth's Lectures on the Gospel of John	p. 125
Application
"Thy Word Is Truth": The Role of Faith in Reading Scripture Theologically with Karl Barth	p. 151
The Heart of the Matter: Karl Barth's Christological Exegesis	p. 173
Appendices: Examples of Barth on Scripture
On 1 Samuel 25: David and Abigail	p. 199
On the Gospel of John: The Prophetic Work of Christ	p. 213
On the Barmen Declaration: How Scripture Continually Saves the Church	p. 223
List of Contributors	p. 233
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