Christianity as "True Religion" According to Karl Barth's Theologia Religionum: An intercultural Conversation with Selected Asian Christian Theologians
This article orchestrates an intercultural theological conversation between Karl Barth’s theology of religions and selected Asian Christian theologians. The latter rightly stress that Barth’s criticism of religions is mainly concerned with Christian religion, although it does allow for the recogniti...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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Asia journal of theology
Year: 2021, Volume: 35, Issue: 2, Pages: 155-170 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NAB Fundamental theology NBB Doctrine of Revelation |
| Further subjects: | B
Actualism
B historical revelation B Karl Barth B Trinity B Asian theology B theology of religions B Katsumi Takizawa |
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| Summary: | This article orchestrates an intercultural theological conversation between Karl Barth’s theology of religions and selected Asian Christian theologians. The latter rightly stress that Barth’s criticism of religions is mainly concerned with Christian religion, although it does allow for the recognition of "other true lights." Yet, insufficient attention is paid to the fact that Barth considers Christianity in particular "the true religion." In critical conversation with these Asian reflections, it becomes clear that we need to move beyond Barth because (1) his Christocentrism neglects God’s presence as Creator and Spirit in other religious traditions, (2) Barth’s actualism does not allow him to properly distinguish between the word of God in the Christian Scriptures and in the "other lights," and (3) this actualism stands in the way of a full recognition of the historical nature of revelation and salvation in Christ. |
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| ISSN: | 2815-1828 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Asia journal of theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.54424/ajt.v35i2.9 |