RT Article
T1 Theology in the Public Debate: Barth's Rejection of Natural Theology and the Hermeneutical Problem
JF Scottish journal of theology
VO 22
IS 4
SP 385
OP 403
A1 Bettis, Joseph Dabney 1936-
LA English
YR 1969
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785550071
AB It is no coincidence that contemporary theology is dominated by the problem of understanding (hermeneutics) and that the key to Karl Barth's theology should deal with the same problem (Anselm: Fides Quaerens Intellectum). It is the seriousness with which this problem is taken that distinguishes the contemporary theological situation from nineteenth-century protestant liberalism. The problematic for both the nineteenth and the twentieth century was stated by Lessing: ‘Accidental truths of history can never constitute the proof of necessary truths of reason. That, that is the ugly, broad ditch I can never cross over, no matter how often or earnestly I have attempted the leap. If anyone can help me over, let him do it!’ But this basic problematic of the relation between the private dimension of faith and the public dimension of thought was approached in quite different ways by the two centuries.
DO 10.1017/S0036930600012412