The Cambridge Companion to Karl Barth

Offers evaluations of Karl Barth's significance for contemporary Christian theology.

John Webster (Edited by)

9780521585606, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 5 October 2000

332 pages
22.8 x 15.3 x 2.2 cm, 0.542 kg

'John Webster and Cambridge University Press are to be congratulated for this carefully produced and helpful volume which, at its best, is both incisive and insightful.' John E. Colwell, International Journal of Systematic Theology

This authoritative book introducing Karl Barth is written by leading scholars of his work, drawn from Europe and North America. They offer challenging yet accessible accounts of the major features of Barth's theological work, especially as it has become available through the publication of his collected works, and interact with the very best of contemporary Barth scholarship. The contributors also assess Barth's significance for contemporary constructive theology, and his place in the history of twentieth-century Christian thought. The Companion both sums up and extends recent renewed interest in Barth's theology, especially in English-speaking theology, and shows him to be once again a major voice in constructive theology.

1. Introducing Barth John Webster
2. Theology Christoph Schwöbel
3. Revelation Trevor Hart
4. The Bible Francis Watson
5. The Trinity Alan Torrance
6. Grace and being: the role of God's gracious election in Karl Barth's Theological Ontology Bruce McCormack
7. Creation and providence Kathryn Tanner
8. Karl Barth's Christology: its basic Chalcedonian character George Hunsinger
9. Salvation Colin Gunton
10. The humanity of the human person in Karl Barth's anthropology Wolf Krötke
11. The mediator of communion: Karl Barth's Doctrine of the Holy Spirit George Hunsinger
12 Christian community, Baptism, and the Lord's Supper James J. Buckley
13. Barth's Trinitarian Ethic Nigel Biggar
14. Karl Barth and politics William Werpehowski
15. Religion and the religions J. A. Di Noia OP
16. Barth and Feminism Katherine Donderegger
17. Barth, Modernity, and Postmodernity Graham Ward
18. Karl Barth: a personal engagement Alasdair I. C. Heron.

Subject Areas: Christian theology [HRCM]