God's definite command?: Some theological thoughts on a puzzling theme in Barth's ethics
One of the most puzzling features of Barth's ethics is the insistence that God's divine command encounters us so definitely and concretely that it simply requires immediate and unquestioning obedience. This article offers an interpretation of these comments by reading them through the fram...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2022
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Scottish journal of theology
Year: 2022, Volume: 75, Issue: 3, Pages: 207-220 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Barth, Karl 1886-1968
/ Secularism
/ Word of God
/ Ethics
/ Command
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDD Protestant Church NBB Doctrine of Revelation NBC Doctrine of God NCA Ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Ethics
B Karl Barth B Word of God B command |
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| Summary: | One of the most puzzling features of Barth's ethics is the insistence that God's divine command encounters us so definitely and concretely that it simply requires immediate and unquestioning obedience. This article offers an interpretation of these comments by reading them through the framework of Barth's description of the secularity, one-sidedness and spirituality of God's Word in Church Dogmatics I/1. Such a reading suggests that Barth's comments are not promoting a foolproof and immediate way of adjudicating ethical quandaries but orient us to the commanding Lord who goes before us. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-3065 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Scottish journal of theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S003693062200031X |