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The Reality of Faith in Theology

Studies on Karl Barth Princeton-Kampen Consultation, 2005

By: Bruce L. McCormack,G. W. Neven

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The Reality of Faith in Theology

Studies on Karl Barth Princeton-Kampen Consultation, 2005

By: Bruce L. McCormack,G. W. Neven

This volume contains papers presented at the Princeton-Kampen Consultation 2005. The theme of the Consultation was «The Reality of God and the Reality of Faith» with reference to Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics (II/1, §§28-31 and IV/1, §63). The contributions offer fresh readings of Karl Barth in dialogue with other theologians and philosophers on the chosen theme.

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Peter Lang

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3039112732

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Orthodox and Modern

Studies in the Theology of Karl Barth

By: Bruce L. McCormack

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Orthodox and Modern

Studies in the Theology of Karl Barth

By: Bruce L. McCormack

These essays by a prominent Barthian scholar offer a full and unique reading of the most significant modern Protestant theologian for twenty-first century readers.

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Baker Academic

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0801035821

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Karl Barth's Critically Realistic Dialectical Theology

Its Genesis and Development, 1909-1936

By: Bruce L. McCormack

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Karl Barth's Critically Realistic Dialectical Theology

Its Genesis and Development, 1909-1936

By: Bruce L. McCormack

`McCormack is master of this voluminous material. He is scrupulously at home in the intricate, dramatic background of Swiss socialist politics ...The result is a masterly study, often as compelling as its theme.' George Steiner, Times Literary Supplement `This meticulous and definitive study ... supersedes most previous interpretations.' Colin Gunton, Theological Book Review `it should quickly attain classic status. It is an exceptionally fine and erudite piece of work....The results of this painstaking attention to detail are truly ground-breaking. This is a major intellectual achievement, an interpretative act of great courage, and Barth studies will never look the same.' Graham Ward, Expository Times This book is a new, major intellectual biography of perhaps the most influential theologian of the twentieth century, Karl Barth. It offers the first full-scale revision of the well-known theologian Hans Urs 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, Professor McCormack demonstrates that the fundamental decision which 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. Professor McCormack further argues that the most significant subsequent 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. Finally, he seeks to show that von Balthasar's description of a turn from dialectic to analogy, which provided the foundation for the neo-orthodox reading of Barth in the English-speaking world, fails to take seriously enough the extent to which dialectic remained a constitutive feature of Barth's outlook in the Church Dogmatics. This unique and important work provides not simply a fresh interpretation of Barth's development, but also a new paradigm for understanding the whole of Barth's theology.

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Oxford University Press

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0198269560

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John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion

A Biography

By: Bruce Gordon

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John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion

A Biography

By: Bruce Gordon

An essential biography of the most important book of the Protestant Reformation John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion is a defining book of the Reformation and a pillar of Protestant theology. First published in Latin in 1536 and in Calvin's native French in 1541, the Institutes argues for the majesty of God and for justification by faith alone. The book decisively shaped Calvinism as a major religious and intellectual force in Europe and throughout the world. Here, Bruce Gordon provides an essential biography of Calvin's influential and enduring theological masterpiece, tracing the diverse ways it has been read and interpreted from Calvin's time to today. Gordon explores the origins and character of the Institutes, looking closely at its theological and historical roots, and explaining how it evolved through numerous editions to become a complete summary of Reformation doctrine. He shows how the development of the book reflected the evolving thought of Calvin, who instilled in the work a restlessness that reflected his understanding of the Christian life as a journey to God. Following Calvin's death in 1564, the Institutes continued to be reprinted, reedited, and reworked through the centuries. Gordon describes how it has been used in radically different ways, such as in South Africa, where it was invoked both to defend and attack the horror of apartheid. He examines its vexed relationship with the historical Calvin—a figure both revered and despised—and charts its robust and contentious reception history, taking readers from the Puritans and Voltaire to YouTube, the novels of Marilynne Robinson, and to China and Africa, where the Institutes continues to find new audiences today.

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Princeton University Press

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1400880505

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The Humility of the Eternal Son

Reformed Kenoticism and the Repair of Chalcedon

By: Bruce Lindley McCormack

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The Humility of the Eternal Son

Reformed Kenoticism and the Repair of Chalcedon

By: Bruce Lindley McCormack

The Chalcedonian Definition of 451 never completely resolved one of the critical issues at the heart of Christianity: the unity of the 'person' of Christ. In this eagerly-awaited volume - the result of deep and sustained reflection - distinguished theologian Bruce Lindley McCormack examines the reasons for this philosophical and theological failure. His book serves as a critical history that traces modern attempts at resolution of this problem, from the nineteenth-century Lutheran emphasis on Kenoticism (or the 'self-emptying' of the Son in order to be receptive to the will of the Father) to post-Barthian efforts that evade the issue by collapsing the second person of the Trinity into the human Jesus - thereby rejecting altogether the logic of the classical 'two-natures' Christology. McCormack shows how New Testament Christologies both limit and authorize ontological reflection, and in so doing offers a distinctively Reformed version of Kenoticism. Proposing a new and bold divine ontology, with a convincing basis in Christology, he persuasively argues that the unity of the 'person' is in fact guaranteed by the Son's act of taking into his 'being' the lived existence of Jesus.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009003089

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Karl Barth and the Making of Evangelical Theology

A Fifty-Year Perspective

By: Clifford B. Anderson,Bruce L. McCormack

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Karl Barth and the Making of Evangelical Theology

A Fifty-Year Perspective

By: Clifford B. Anderson,Bruce L. McCormack

Swiss theologian Karl Barth traveled to the United States only once during his long career. In 1962, newly retired, he came to visit family and to deliver a series of lectures subsequently published (by Eerdmans) as Evangelical Theology: An Introduction, which remains in print and widely read to this day. Besides recounting some delightful and poignant biographical details about Barth s two-month journey through the States, the authors of this book revisit central themes in Barth s mature theology and explore the theological and ethical significance of his Evangelical Theology. Even more, the distinguished scholars contributing to this volume assess contemporary North American theology and show how Barth s Evangelical Theology remains as bracing, powerful, and relevant today as it was fifty years ago. Contributors: David W. Congdon Jessica DeCou Hans-Anton Drewes Kevin W. Hector George Hunsinger Cambria Janae Kaltwasser Gerald McKenny Daniel L. Migliore Adam Neder Peter J. Paris Katherine Sonderegger

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802872352

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Justification in Perspective

Historical Developments and Contemporary Challenges

By: Bruce L. McCormack

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Justification in Perspective

Historical Developments and Contemporary Challenges

By: Bruce L. McCormack

A diverse group of international theologians explores the historical development and contemporary understandings of the Protestant doctrine of justification.

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Baker Academic

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0801031311

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Karl Barth's Critically Realistic Dialectical Theology

Its Genesis and Development, 1909-1936

By: Bruce L. McCormack

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Its Genesis and Development, 1909-1936

By: Bruce L. McCormack

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Oxford University Press

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The Reality of Faith in Theology

The Reality of Faith in Theology

Orthodox and Modern

Orthodox and Modern

Karl Barth's Critically Realistic Dialectical Theology

Karl Barth's Critically Realistic Dialectical Theology

John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion

John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion

The Humility of the Eternal Son

The Humility of the Eternal Son

Karl Barth and the Making of Evangelical Theology

Karl Barth and the Making of Evangelical Theology

Justification in Perspective

Justification in Perspective

Karl Barth's Critically Realistic Dialectical Theology

Karl Barth's Critically Realistic Dialectical Theology

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