... might be lost with the adoption of complete ectogestation (“artificial wombs”). Specifically, it considers both Saint Augustine and Karl Barth’s respective accounts of humanity’s whence—that is, their theological answer to the question of the nature and significance of our origins as individuals. I...

... the Reformed theological tradition, which has its roots in John Calvin. Ramsey does not engage with that tradition at any length but draws on the concept of covenant as the ground for his theological ethics. By invoking 20th-century Reformed theologian Karl Barth, Ramsey grounds his ethics in God’s covenant...

... Gilead has been critically explored, the role of the theology of Karl Barth and his understanding of the parable has been largely ignored. Here, Barth’s presence in the novel is discussed as an influence on the development of John Ames’ self-understanding in theological terms, in particular through his...

... in this kind of climate tend to be susceptible to a drift towards consequentialist forms of rationality. The subsequent shift in the Government's position on true hybrids would seem to be a case in point. Alasdair MacIntyre Christian ethics Dietrich Bonhoeffer human admixed embryos Karl Barth...

...This chapter presents a selective analysis of commentators who argue for anagogical or analogical interpretations of the dynamics of the De Trinitate, mainly Olivier Du Roy and Karl Barth. Other commentators (especially Karl Rahner), who trace the alleged modalistic bent of Western...

... this was challenged by a new generation of Reformed theologians who appealed directly to Calvin’s writings as read through the lenses of Karl Barth and André Biéler to argue that genuine Calvinism provided no grounds for racial segregation. apartheid Calvinism Dutch East Indies Company Dutch Reformed Church DRC...

... failed. In Part II a different attempt to describe and celebrate the new life offered in Christ and the Christian faith in the area of gender will be made. Karl Barth is the best-known ‘theologian of revelation’ of the twentieth century. As such he rejects natural theology of any kind, calling...

.... Shortly after the end of the First World War, Karl Barth’s theology began to make its impact on Scotland. Hugh Mackintosh, Professor of Systematic Theology in Edinburgh for the United Free Church, described Barth’s theology, as he encountered it in the late 1920s, as ‘the theology of a great, a volcanic...

... eschatology discipleship openness education moral Gustafson J M Kant I narrative Schleiermacher F D E Scripture imagination Birch B C Karl Barth theology ethics Christian Church The Word of God commands us through Scripture, but not as we sit in splendid and decidedly ungodlike isolation...

...This book offers a fresh and up-to-date account of the ethical thought of one of the 20th century's greatest theologians: Karl Barth. The book seeks to recover Barth's ethics from some widespread misunderstandings, and also present a picture of it as a whole. Drawing on recently published sources...

... ethics Santmire Paul Karl Barth Paul Santmire human freedom Jesus Christ creation Christian stewardship In the previous chapter our search for Barth's model of stewardship pointed us toward God's work in Christ. Even though we began reading Barth for his view of specific practices, the question...

... Modernism Biblical theology Theology of the New Testament Karl Barth Rudolf Bultmann Postmodern Antifoundationalism Marxism Orthodoxy Around 1800 a genre of theological scholarship arose that proposed to instruct modern Christians about how they should interpret their Bibles. Variously known...

...This chapter addresses the following question: If “first nature” is decisively altered by “second nature,” how should that transformation alter Christian theological reflection in turn? Drawing upon Karl Barth's critique, it is argued that natural theologies in the modern period often neglected...

...This chapter examines Karl Barth's denouncement of natural theology and the reactions of the group of theologians following him. These theologians have all engaged with the natural sciences, but also share similar concerns to Barth in terms of prioritising revelation and of maintaining or defending...

... religion dialectic of Marquardt F W revolution Russia Titanism Barth Heinrich Jüngel E liberation theology love theology Harnack Adolph von Romans Karl Barth Goethe Olympian Spring Kutter Round about 1909, Karl Barth observed in 1918, religion had become such a palpably powerful force...

... Association of Evangelicals U S Niebuhr Reinhold Karl Barth George Bell Dietrich Bonhoeffer Catholicism Faith and Order Harry Emerson Fosdick Life and Work Church of North India Scopes Trial Church of South India World Council of Churches Over the first half of the 20th century, while...

... in these religions and the importance of tradition in understanding. It also discusses how the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century was a defining event in the history of hermeneutics; the rise of modern historical criticism; and the theological interpretations of Karl Barth, Rudolf Bultmann, and Dietrich...

... is that Frei reduces the biblical witness to a self-contained literary world. The second part of chapter 4 reassesses the Barthian dimensions of Frei's work in light of the potentially devastating criticism that Frei's reading of Karl Barth is decidedly undialectical, inordinately stressing the role of analogy...

... Cady Daly Mary Feminist Theology patriarchy Ruether Rosemary Radford Sexism and God Talk Holy Spirit apostolic succession Karl Barth Feminist Theology John Paul II Julian of Norwich Martin Luther New Testament Old Testament Orthodox Church St Paul Sacred Heart The preceding chapters...

... in the latter. It asks, rather, if we might be confronted here with two forms, or modes, of exclusion. It revisits the initial, traditional problem of exclusion entailed in the Christian particularism of the doctrine of the Trinity by way of the preeminent Christian particularist, Karl Barth. It suggests...