Clearing a Space for Human Action
Ethical Ontology in the Early Theology of Karl Barth
Monographs
VII,
341 Pages
Series:
Issues in Systematic Theology, Volume 10
Summary
Clearing a Space for Human Action demonstrates how Karl Barth’s concern for ethical description cannot be separated from his concern for a proper theological description of the God-human relationship. Early in his career, Barth attempted to describe human ethical agency in terms that respected the co-inherence of dogmatics and ethics, but in such a way that neither human nor divine agency suffered absorption into the other. This book’s conclusion calls for a treatment of Barth’s Dogmatics as a sustained theological ethical ontology. Only then can we hope to understand Barth’s treatment of the human and the Divine in other parts of the Dogmatics.
Details
- Pages
- VII, 341
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9780820455846
- Language
- English
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 2003. VII, 341 pp.