Karl Barth

Teaching History and Balancing the Secular

by Michael Jimenez

Paper for Justice, Education and Spirituality Conference at Biola 03/2012

David Clough and Michael Leyden, "Claiming Barth for Ethics: The Last Two Decades" in Ecclesiology vol. 6 number 2 (2010) 166-182

by Michael Leyden

‘A Weariness of the Flesh’: Towards a Theology of Boredom and Fatigue

by K Jason Wardley

From: 'Intensities: Philosophy, Religion and the Affirmation of Life' (Ashgate, 2012)

This essay follows two impulses: Jean-Yves Lacoste’s suggestion that philosophy and theology should speak about... more This essay follows two impulses: Jean-Yves Lacoste’s suggestion that philosophy and theology should speak about boredom and about fatigue, just as they do about anguish or joy, and the Swiss theologian Karl Barth’s contention that theological anthropology and philosophy of religion are incoherent without them. Above all, it will try and offer a tentative answer to the question as to what it means to pray when one is tired or bored. To this end, I shall begin by examining some of the traditional theological and philosophical readings of fatigue and boredom (beginning with Jewish and Christian scripture), before turning specifically to Martin Heidegger and Giorgio Agamben, and finally to recent phenomenological accounts, drawing from them some suggestions for a possible theology of boredom and fatigue.

Major Paper - Christianity After Nietzsche

by Dean Marco Funk

Major Paper - Barth’s Doctrine of the Trinity and Theological Method

by Dean Marco Funk

Into the Far Country: The Happy Exchange and the Doctrine of God in Barth

by Michael Gibson

The Trinity is Not our Social Program: Volf, Nyssa and Barth

by Mark Husbands

Published in Rediscovering the Trinity: Classic Doctrine and Contemporary Ministry, Daniel J. Treier and David Lauber, eds. InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, (2009).

Acknowledgment and the Ordinary: (Theological) Anthropology in Karl Barth and Stanley Cavell

by KC Flynn

Presenting at the 2012 Southwest Commission on Religious Studies Conference in Dallas, TX, Philosophy of Religion and Theology Section: Karl Barth and Post-Modernity

Major Paper - Transcendence in Barth and Bonhoeffer

by Dean Marco Funk

Theology is ethics: how Karl Barth sees the good life

by Andy Alexis-Baker

Alexis-Baker. "Theology Is Ethics: How Karl Barth Sees the Good Life." Scottish Journal of Theology 64, no. 4 (2011): 425–38.

Since Immanuel Kant, moral reasoning has been divorced from classical theology and reinscribed onto self-contained... more Since Immanuel Kant, moral reasoning has been divorced from classical theology and reinscribed onto self-contained individuals. Shorn of theological particularities, modern ethics tries to identify behaviors to which every right-thinking person can assent. A basic premise of classical moral philosophy, however, was that if we know who we are and what our telos is, then we can have a good idea of how we ought to act. In his Christology, Barth reappropriates this classical view of ethics and situates it christologically. Because Jesus' human nature finds its being and telos in his divinity, Barth found an ethical pattern in the anhypostasis-enhypostasis doctrine. Restoring people to their proper place as creatures rather than Kantian demi-gods, Jesus shows us what it means to be truly human by being obedient to the Father. We cannot divinize individuals or the church, but the church exists enhypostatically. This anhypostatic-enhypostatic Christological pattern orders our activities, making worship the first task of ethics. In prayer and in Sabbath keeping, Jesus shows us his utter dependence on God through supplication and rest. In these acts of worship, Christians act as they were created to act. We respond obediently to our Creator. But we also find an orientation toward other people in Christology. Love of enemies has everything to do with the content and shape of God’s command. It is involved in the telos of human life in being Christ-like.

Silence, Rupture, Theology. Towards a Post-Christian Interdisciplinarity

by Mattias Martinson

This chapter is included in Literature and Theology. New Interdsiciplinary Spaces, ed. Heather Walton, Ashgate, 2011. It adresses the question about a possible post-Christian theological vision, against the trend in recent political theolygy where strong concepts of the identity of the Church or Christian community have become poivotal for the theological reflection. The paper discusses several texts from the years after World War One, such  as Wittgensteins Tractatus, Dada-manifests, Barths commentary on the Romans and Benjamins histocial-political fragment etc. in order to exemplify how a  theological view on culture may release new insights and add to a broader debate on culture.

About the Anthology: Literature and Theology. New Interdisciplinary Spaces

This book explores current... more About the Anthology: Literature and Theology. New Interdisciplinary Spaces

This book explores current trends in the interdisciplinary study of literature and theology - an area of academic activity that has developed dramatically in the past twenty years. The field of study originated from the impetus to embrace the richness of imaginative resources in theological reflection and was stimulated by the re-emergence of the sacred in contemporary theory. Since the mid '90s critical theory has undergone a number of significant transformations, theology has become a subject of public concern and the boundaries between sacred and cultural texts have become increasingly unstable. This book brings together the work of leading scholars in the field with that of emerging voices. Offering an important resource for the growing number of postgraduate courses exploring the relation between religion and culture in the contemporary context, this book delineates current trends in interdisciplinary debate as well as tracing emerging configurations.

Contents: Introduction, Heather Walton; Interdisciplinarity in impossible times: studying religion through literature and the arts, David Jasper; Discipline beyond disciplines, Andrew W. Haas; When love is not true: literature and theology after romance, Heather Walton; Two (and two and two) towers: interdisciplinary borrowing and the limits of interpretation, Alana Vincent; Silence, rupture, theology. Towards a post-Christian interdisciplinarity, Mattias Martinson; Female genius: Jane Leade (1624–1704), Alison Jasper; Re-imagining the sacred in Caribbean literature, Fiona Darroch; Theological aesthetics and beauty as revelatory: an interdisciplinary assessment, John O'Connor; The sublime and the beautiful: intersections between theology and literature, Paul S. Fiddes; Touch and trembling: intimating interdisciplinary bodies, Mark Godin; A story of love and death: exploring space for the philosophical imaginary, Pamela Sue Anderson; The Devil in disciplines: the hermeneutic of Devil-hood in C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters, Christine Hsi-Chin Chou; Interdisciplinary poetics: S.T. Coleridge and the possibility of symbol-making after the word, Kelly Van Andel; Inde

The Use of Double Predestination as a Foundation for the Theology of Religions

by Trapper Garrett

A paper presented in fulfillment of the requirements for the course: Christology and Soteriology, Winter 2011

Barth and Badiou Read St. Paul or Mark Lilla’s Worst Nightmare

by Michael Jimenez

A short study of the Event in Barth and Badiou and defense of their work in response to Mark Lilla's recent criticisms. A short study of the Event in Barth and Badiou and defense of their work in response to Mark Lilla's recent criticisms.

The Resurrection of Jesus Christ: Karl Barth and the Historicization of God's Being

by Adam Eitel

International Journal of Systematic Theology 10.1 (2008): 36-53.

In the excurses of Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics IV/1, Barth invests the resurrection with greater ontological... more In the excurses of Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics IV/1, Barth invests the resurrection with greater ontological significance than is typically acknowledged in contemporary accounts of his mature theology. In this article, I systematically develop the numerous statements in CD IV/1 in which Barth conceptualizes the resurrection as the historical fulfillment of God's eternal being. Subsequently, I identify the similitude between Barth's theology of the resurrection and Hegel's as presented in his Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion. The article closes by suggesting that the similitude between Barth's view and Hegel's may include points of material correspondence.

The Rhetoric of Evil and the Definition of Christian Identity

by Johannes Zachhuber

This is a draft which will be further edited prior to publication in a collection of essays.

The question I seek to address in this essay is to what extent a rhetoric of exclusion and stigmatisation has... more The question I seek to address in this essay is to what extent a rhetoric of exclusion and stigmatisation has historically been part of the very definition of Christian identity. Few would doubt that examples of such a strategy exist, but I argue that their proximity to some of the most fundamental formulations of Christian belief points to an ecclesiological paradox: a Church that is meant to include all cannot exist without excluding at least some. I discuss various liberal and conservative attempts to avoid the paradox, but conclude that it has to be accepted as unavoidable. The Church follows her mission precisely by recognising in her theological self-reflection the distance between its institutional reality and the ideal she is meant to embody.

Redefining Divine Omnipotence: Inversion, Paradox, & Antithesis in §59 Of Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics IV.1

by John Gibson

Revelation and History: Barth’s View on History in the Light of Kirchliche Dogmatik I

by Benjamin Wu

in Karl Barth and Sino-Christian Theology II: Essays to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of his Death, eds. OU Li-Jen and Andres S. K. TANG (Hong Kong: Logos and Pneuma Press, 2008)

Karl Barth (1886-1968)

by Derek Michaud

Edited in The Boston Collaborative Encyclopedia of Western Theology

This is the way the world ends: A conversation between Kara Slade and Amy Laura Hall on domination and solidarity in young adult dystopias

by Kara Slade

‘“Love your enemies”: Usury, citizenship & the friend-enemy distinction,’ in Modern Theology 27:3 (2011).

by Luke Bretherton

Through an analysis of the Scriptural treatment of usury, a constructive theological analysis of the question of the... more Through an analysis of the Scriptural treatment of usury, a constructive theological analysis of the question of the friend-enemy distinction as a political category, its relationship to a Christian conception of universalism as determined by being in Christ, and the nature of faithful citizenship is forged. This essay argues that usury is a paradigmatic instance of the friend-enemy distinction as defined by Carl Schmitt and as such is primarily a political act. The article closes by analysing Schmitt's reading of Jesus’ commandment to love enemies and suggests that after Christ, the friend-enemy distinction ceases to be political and becomes missiological instead. The implication of this missiological conception is then related back to the on-going question of usury.