Karl Barth's Ontology of Divine Grace

God's Decision is God's Being
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-16-159558-5
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck

Buch, Englisch, 223 Seiten, Format (B × H): 232 mm x 155 mm, Gewicht: 360 g

Reihe: Religion in philosophy and theology

Karl Barth's rigorous and singular focus on God's reconciling and revealing activity in Jesus Christ yields a profoundly compelling ontological vision. In this study, Tyler J. Frick explores Barth's understanding of God's being and particularly Barth's contention in Church Dogmatics II/1 that God is essentially gracious in God's original and proper triune life. The author argues that Barth's doctrine of election expounded in Church Dogmatics II/2 provides Barth with the sufficient conceptual framework to ensure that there is no bifurcation between what God does in the economy of grace and who and what God is as triune. This analysis demonstrates the Trinitarian consequences present in Barth's later volumes, which arise from Barth's insistence that the doctrine of election is the eternal decision in which God graciously elects Godself to become humanity's God in the covenant-fulfilling existence of Jesus Christ.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frick, Tyler J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsethik, Weltethos
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie

Über Autor(innen)

Frick, Tyler J.
Born 1986; 2010 BA; 2013 MA; 2019 PhD in Systematic Theology from King's College, University of Aberdeen; currently an independent scholar living in Seattle, Washington.