RT Article
T1 Mediating Feuerbach and Barth: Bonhoeffer's this-worldly theology
JF Scottish journal of theology
VO 77
IS 1
SP 1
OP 15
A1 Della Torre, Frank ca. 20./21. Jh.
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1885285426
AB 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.
K1 Dietrich Bonhoeffer
K1 Karl Barth
K1 Ludwig Feuerbach
K1 Revelation
K1 worldliness
DO 10.1017/S0036930623000364