Community, State, and Church: Three Essays

by Karl Barth

Publisher:

Wipf and Stock

, 2004

Overview

Karl Barth was a modern master theologian. Whenever men in the past generation have reflected deeply on the ultimate problems of life and faith, they have done so in a way that bears the mark of the intellectual revolution let loose by this Swiss thinker.

But his life was not simply one of quiet reflection and scholarship. He was obliged to do his thinking and writing in one of the stormiest periods of history, and he always attempted to speak to the problems and concerns of the time. In June 1933 he emerged as the theologian of the Confessional movement, which was attempting to preserve the integrity of the Evangelical Church in Germany against corruption from within and terror from without. His leadership in this struggle against Nazism also made it necessary for him to say something about the totalitarianism that the Soviet power was clamping down upon a large part of Europe. In this indirect way, a Barthian social philosophy emerged, and this theologian, who abjured apologetics and desired nothing but to expound the Word of God, was compelled by circumstances to propound views on society and the state that make him one of the most influential social thinkers of our time.

Key Features

• Featues a key title from Karl Barth
• Examines an important topic from a Reformed twentieth-century perspective
• Provides biblical exegesis combined with deep concern for theological orthodoxy'

Contents

Top Highlights

“The Church must remain the Church. It must remain the inner circle of the Kingdom of Christ.” (Page 157)

“e very fact that God speaks to us, that, under all circumstances, is, in itself, grace” (Page 72)

“is there an actual, and therefore inward and vital, connection between the two realms?” (Page 106)

“the Christian community also exists in ‘the still unredeemed world,’” (Page 152)

“Awareness of God is one thing, Being in God quite another” (Page 152)

Product Details

• Title: Community, State, and Church: Three Essays
• Author: Karl Barth
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Print Publication Date: 2004
• Logos Release Date: 2015
• Pages: 202
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Theology; Church and state; Reformed Church
• ISBNs: 9781592449231, 1592449239
• Resource ID: LLS:CMMNTYSTTCHRCH
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T22:48:36Z

About Karl Barth

Karl Barth (May 10, 1886–December 10, 1968) was a twentieth-century Swiss theologian in the Reformed tradition. A vigorous opponent of theological liberalism and modernism, he is sometimes called “the Father of Neo-Orthodoxy.”