TY - BOOK AU - Darren Kennedy PY - 2012 CY - Oxford, United Kingdom PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 9783035301687 TI - Providence and Personalism T2 - Karl Barth in Conversation with Austin Farrer, John Macmurray and Vincent Brümmer DO - 10.3726/978-3-0353-0168-7 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1052442 N2 - Karl Barth of fered Church Dogmatics III.3 as a ‘radical correction’ of Reformed Orthodoxy’s doctrine of providence. This book assesses this claim and argues that III.3 represents a ‘personalist’ revision of providence which can only be understood through Barth’s ad hoc use of philosophical resources. Barth’s doctrine of providence remains theology proper, and not philosophy, but cannot be understood without philosophy. Setting Barth in conversation with three philosophical theologians, Vincent Brümmer, John Macmurray and Austin Farrer, this book shows Barth’s distance from pre-modern understandings of providence. The conversations equip the reader to discern the continuities and discontinuities between III.3 and twentieth-century personal, relational philosophy, thereby making sense of many of Barth’s counterintuitive claims. Through contrast with the philosophical theologians, Barth’s Christocentric and Trinitarian articulation gains clarity and significance. Building on these philosophical comparisons, this book assesses Barth’s contributions to debates concerning history as determined by divine action, human freedom under providence and the problem of evil. KW - Karl Barth, Barth's doctrine of providence, three philosophical theologians, Vincent Brümmer, John Macmurray and Austin Farrer, history as determined by divine action, human freedom under providence, and the problem of evil, God, Evil and Nothingnes LA - English ER -