Mediating Feuerbach and Barth: Bonhoeffer's this-worldly theology
In this paper, I revisit a debate between Ludwig Feuerbach and Karl Barth, known as the ‘Barth-Feuerbach confrontation’. I begin by framing the contours of this dispute as it was initiated by Barth and carried forward by his interpreters, who have sought in vain to make Barth's and Feuerbach�...
| Published in: | Scottish journal of theology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2024
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Scottish journal of theology
Year: 2024, Volume: 77, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-15 |
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Ludwig Feuerbach
B Karl Barth B worldliness B Revelation B Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
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| Summary: | In this paper, I revisit a debate between Ludwig Feuerbach and Karl Barth, known as the ‘Barth-Feuerbach confrontation’. I begin by framing the contours of this dispute as it was initiated by Barth and carried forward by his interpreters, who have sought in vain to make Barth's and Feuerbach's positions commensurable. Having narrated the history of this ongoing scholarly discussion and clarified why it remains intractable, I turn to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whose this-worldly conception of theology, I argue, provides resources for ‘mediating’ the insights of Feuerbach and Barth. By attending to Bonhoeffer's earliest engagements with Barth on the question of divine revelation, and by exploring his striking proximity to Feuerbach on the issue of this-worldliness, we can see how Bonhoeffer helps overcome not only the dichotomies that plague the Barth-Feuerbach confrontation but also those that pervade modern attempts to safeguard this-worldliness by dispensing with divine transcendence. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-3065 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Scottish journal of theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0036930623000364 |