Beyond immanence : the theological vision of Kierkegaard and Barth /

Beyond immanence : the theological vision of Kierkegaard and Barth /

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Author / Creator:Torrance, Alan J., author.
Imprint:Grand Rapids, Michigan : Willim B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2023.
©2023
Description:xiv, 393 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Kierkegaard as a Christian thinker
Kierkegaard as a Christian thinker.
Subject:
Kierkegaard, Søren, -- 1813-1855.
Barth, Karl, -- 1886-1968.
Immanence of God.
Transcendence of God.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13141937
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Other authors / contributors:Torrance, Andrew B., author.
ISBN:9780802868039
0802868037
9781467466837
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"An exploration of Søren Kierkegaard's influence on Karl Barth's theology"--
"Critical insights into Kierkegaard's influence on Barth's theology. Karl Barth was often critical of Søren Kierkegaard's ideas as he understood them. But close reading of the two corpora reveals that Barth owes a lot to the melancholy Dane. Both conceive of God as infinitely qualitatively different from humans, and both emphasize the shocking nearness of God in the incarnation. As public intellectuals, they used this theological vision to protect Christocentric faith from political manipulation and compromise. For Kierkegaard, this meant criticizing the state church; for Barth, this entailed resisting Nazism. Meticulously crafted by a father-son team of renowned systematic theologians, Beyond Immanence demonstrates that Kierkegaard and Barth share a theological trajectory-one that resists cynical manipulation of Christianity for political purposes in favor of uncompromising devotion to a God who is radically transcendent yet established kinship with humanity in time"--
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Barth's Reception of Kierkegaard
  • The "Phantom Kierkegaard"
  • Kierkegaard's Influence on Romans II
  • An Introductory Note on Kierkegaard's Theological Project
  • An Introductory Note on Earth's Theological Project
  • Overview of Chapters
  • 1. Kierkegaard's Audience and Approach
  • A "Christian" Nation
  • Hegel
  • Hans Lassen Martensen and Danish Hegelianism
  • Kierkegaard's Approach
  • 2. Kierkegaard on Creation and Christology, against Hegelianism
  • God and Creation
  • The Divine Incognito
  • Paradoxical Christology
  • Christ the Mediator
  • Conclusion
  • 3. Karl Barth's Stand against Idealism, Cultural Religion, and Nationalism
  • Reasonable Religion, Pedagogy, and Incipient Idealism
  • The Impact of Idealism on Biblical Scholarship
  • Theology, Politics, and the Question of Criteria
  • The Theological Impact of Neo-Kantian Idealism
  • Conclusion
  • 4. The Theological Implications of God's Kinship in Time
  • Liberating Christianity from Christianism and the Potential for Harm
  • Setting Theology Free
  • Kinship, Covenant, and Creaturely Freedom
  • Conclusion
  • 5. Barth's Appropriation of Kierkegaard
  • The Infinite Qualitative Difference
  • Barth on God's Self-Revelation in History
  • The Paradox of Faith
  • Conclusion
  • 6. Engaging Secular Society
  • Barth's Debate with Brunner
  • "The Light of Natural Reason," the "Moral Sense," and the Diversity of Epistemic Bases
  • The Moral Conscience as a Twofold Point of Connection
  • Dogmatics, Apologetics, and the Challenge of the Grounding Question
  • Christian Engagement in the Public Square
  • Metanoia Again!
  • The Implications of the Kierkegaard-Barth Trajectory for Sociopolitical Ethics
  • "Either-Or," or "Both-And"
  • From Solution to Plight
  • Conclusion
  • 7. Beyond Immanence
  • The Divine Address and Human God-talk
  • The Trinitarian Grammar of Revelation
  • The Kierkegaard-Barth Trajectory and the Theologistic Fallacy
  • How Barth's Trinitarian Approach Obviates the Theologistic Fallacy
  • History and the Veiledness of Revelation
  • The Age-Old Challenge of Idealism, and Two Parallel Gulfs
  • Progressing beyond the Socratic in Biblical Scholarship
  • Externalist Epistemology
  • The Externalist Nature of Kierkegaard's and Barth's Accounts
  • Fred Dretske on Recognition and Entitlement
  • Semantic Externalism and Its Challenge of Descriptivist Theories of Reference
  • The De Re Character of Christian God-talk
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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