Condemnation and universal salvation: Karl Barth's reverent agnosticism' revisited
The question of Karl Barth's attitude towards universalism has been a topic of debate since his own day. By examining a twofold two-way determination of the actuality of world-history in Christo that Barth construes in the actualistic hamartiology of CD IV/3, §70, I will contend that he does no...
| Published in: | Scottish journal of theology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2018]
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Scottish journal of theology
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Barth, Karl 1886-1968
/ Universalism
/ Apocatastasis
/ Damnation
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDD Protestant Church NBK Soteriology |
| Further subjects: | B
Actualism
B Karl Barth B Apocatastasis B Universalism B reverent agnosticism B Hamartiology |
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| Summary: | The question of Karl Barth's attitude towards universalism has been a topic of debate since his own day. By examining a twofold two-way determination of the actuality of world-history in Christo that Barth construes in the actualistic hamartiology of CD IV/3, §70, I will contend that he does not describe the prospect of the final condemnation of humankind as an empty threat, even though the whole of his theological witness to Christ clearly testifies to universal salvation. This dialectical aspect of Barth's actualistic hamartiology leads to an attitude towards the apokatastasis that George Hunsinger aptly describes as reverent agnosticism'. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-3065 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Scottish journal of theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0036930618000352 |