Reading the Decree: Exegesis, Election and Christology in Calvin and Barth. By David Gibson
In the summer of 1922, the young Karl Barth taught a course on the theology of Calvin. As he struggled to prepare lectures, he immersed himself passionately in Calvin’s thought, even cancelling his other announced course (on the Epistle to the Hebrews) so that he could concentrate solely on the Refo...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2011, Volume: 62, Issue: 1, Pages: 415-419 |
| Review of: | Reading the decree (London [u.a.] : T & T Clark, 2009) (Goroncy, Jason A.)
Reading the decree (London [u.a.] : T-&-T-Clark, 2009) (Goroncy, Jason A.) |
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| Summary: | In the summer of 1922, the young Karl Barth taught a course on the theology of Calvin. As he struggled to prepare lectures, he immersed himself passionately in Calvin’s thought, even cancelling his other announced course (on the Epistle to the Hebrews) so that he could concentrate solely on the Reformer’s writings. In a letter penned to Eduard Thurneysen that same year, Barth expressed his astonishment at the strangeness and power of what he had discovered: ‘Calvin is a cataract, a primeval forest, a demonic power, something directly down from Himalaya, absolutely Chinese, strange, mythological; I lack completely the means, the suction cups, even to assimilate this phenomenon, not to speak of presenting it adequately. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flq170 |