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‘A Strange and Terrifying Calvin’ ‘A Strange and Terrifying Calvin’
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Barth’s Itinerary and the Weimar Context Barth’s Itinerary and the Weimar Context
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The University and Occasional Lectures The University and Occasional Lectures
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Barth’s Romantic-Modernist Portrait of Calvin Barth’s Romantic-Modernist Portrait of Calvin
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Barth and Eastern Wisdom Barth and Eastern Wisdom
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Weberian Severity and Religious Psychology Weberian Severity and Religious Psychology
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Ontology and Ethics: The Sickness of Man unto Death Ontology and Ethics: The Sickness of Man unto Death
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The Dialectic of the Thought of God: Jesus Christ The Dialectic of the Thought of God: Jesus Christ
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Conclusion Conclusion
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32 Karl Barth’s Calvin: A Weimar Prophet
Get accessRyan Glomsrud is Associate Professor of Historical Theology at Westminster Seminary California. His research interests include Reformation and early modern theology, nineteenth-century Protestant thought, the theology of Karl Barth, and modern European intellectual history. He is the author of Calvin’s Free Pupil: Karl Barth and the Reformed Tradition (IVP Academic, forthcoming).
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Published:14 July 2021
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Abstract
This chapter explores Karl Barth’s early reception of John Calvin at the time of his initial post-liberal engagement with classical Protestant authors. For Barth, the Genevan Reformer easily belonged in a pantheon of theologians that included Augustine, Thomas, Luther, and Schleiermacher. However, Barth’s Calvin was not antiquarian or historical but of thoroughly modern vintage, even romantic and modernist in certain respects. The chapter contends that Barth fashioned an image of Calvin in the tumultuous years of the Weimar Republic that was of thoroughly modern vintage. Although he immersed himself in primary sources, Barth’s presentation of the Reformer owed much to German romanticism as well as Weimar modernism, including such notable intellectuals as Hermann Hesse, Stefan Zweig, and Max Weber.
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