Karl Barth and Post-Reformation Orthodoxy

Rinse H. Reeling Brouwer

• Verlag: Routledge
• Jahr: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781317109563
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Theologie & Religion
• Thema: Christentum

Throughout his magnum opus, Church Dogmatics, Karl Barth converses with the great theologians of post-reformation orthodoxy, quoting from works in his private collection. When Barth became Honorary Professor of Reformed Theology at the University of Göttingen in 1921, his knowledge of the Reformed tradition was practically non-existent; he quickly amassed his collection of ancient copies in order to acquire a thorough knowledge of orthodoxy. In Karl Barth and Post-Reformation Orthodoxy, Rinse H. Reeling Brouwer identifies and discusses the sources of Barth's conversations and analyses Barth's use and (mis)understandings of them. Each chapter focuses on one of the topics in Christian Dogmatics, with the last chapter exploring the way in which Barth's role as a reader of the 19th-century writer of a textbook on Reformed Dogmatics Heinrich Heppe influenced the ultimate shaping of Church Dogmatics. Reeling Brouwer offers a major contribution to Barth scholarship and an important resource for theologians as well as historians focusing on the post-reformation protestant theology.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Karl Barth’s Conversation with Amandus Polanus Especially with Regard to the Dichotomies in his Speaking of God
• 2 Karl Barth’s Elaboration of a Series of Disputations from the Leiden Synopsis: Scripture, Trinity, Providence, Predestination, and Incarnation
• 3 Johannes Cocceius and Karl Barth On the Covenant and the Decree of Salvation
• 4 Karl Barth Reading the Reformed Doctrine of the Church in Heppe
• 5 Karl Barth and the Janus Face of the Doctrine of Justification in ‘Reasonable Orthodoxy’
• 6 Some Consequences of Barth’s Encounter with Heppe for the Order of the Church Dogmatics
• Bibliography
• Index