The Monstrosity of God Made Flesh: Karl Barth on God as Leviathan
Three times over the course of thirty-eight years, Karl Barth images God as the monster Leviathan (once each in the Epistle to the Romans, Church Dogmatics II.1 and& IV.3.1). Barth's imagination for God in monstrous form emerges from his interpretation of Romans 11:35, in which the apostle...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2019]
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Journal of reformed theology
Year: 2019, Volume: 13, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 238-256 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NBC Doctrine of God NBF Christology NBK Soteriology |
| Further subjects: | B
Monster Theory
B Job 41 B Christology B Leviathan B Barth B Flesh B Romans 11 B Incarceration |
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| Summary: | Three times over the course of thirty-eight years, Karl Barth images God as the monster Leviathan (once each in the Epistle to the Romans, Church Dogmatics II.1 and& IV.3.1). Barth's imagination for God in monstrous form emerges from his interpretation of Romans 11:35, in which the apostle Paul quotes a line from Job 41:11, a poem about Leviathan, to describe the greatness of God. Using monster theory and a close reading of Barth, this article will discuss how God as Leviathan answers one of Barth's primary questions—namely, how it is that Jesus saves human beings from their headlong rush into the abyss. Moving from Barth's exegetical insights, through Barth's soteriology, the article ends with the ethics of a God made monstrous flesh—an ethics that Barth explicitly links to the status of prisoners and all those depicted as monstrous and cast into the abyss. |
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| ISSN: | 1569-7312 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of reformed theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15697312-01303001 |