Karl Barth: God’s Word in Action
Ebook
In this creative and original book, Paul S. Chung interprets Karl Barth as a theologian of divine action. Chung appreciates Barth's dogmatic theology as both contextual and irregular, and he retrieves the neglected sides of Barth's thought with respect to political radicalism, Israel, natural theology, and religious pluralism.
In this insightful and wide-ranging consideration of Barth for
today, Chung reminds us of both the particularities of Barth's
politicized theology and his theologized politics. Thereby Chung,
in a properly Barthian mode and with the refreshing frame of a
second-generation minjung theologian, demonstrates Barth's ongoing
relevance for this politically charged and pluralistically cultured
day.
—Duane H. Larson, President, Wartburg Theological Seminary,
Dubuque, IA.
Transversing both the German and the Anglo-Saxon scholarship on
Barth, this concise and clearly written book shows how Karl Barth's
theology, from beginning to end, contains a contextual dimension
that is bound to disturb our all-too-comfortable dichotomies
between dogmatics and ethics, the gospel of the church and the
politics of this world. Writing from his Asian minjung liberative
background, Dr. Chung has done a favor to both the student and the
scholar, and to the legacy of Karl Barth.
—Niels Henrik Gregersen, Professor of Systematic Theology,
University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Chung demonstrates Karl Barth as a radical theologian with a
convincing aptitude. I personally appreciate the kinship this
independent reading has with my own footsteps, identifying Barth as
a resisting theologian. —Prof. Dr. Peter Winzeler at the University
of Bern, Switzerland. Author of Widerstehende Theologie: Karl Barth
1920-35.
An ambitious and groundbreaking study, in which Chung makes a
significant contribution to the renewal of Barth studies by
combining methodological, biographical, social/political, and
theology-of-religions perspectives.
—Veli-Matti Karkkainen, Professor of Systematic Theology, Fuller
Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA.
Chung's lucid study of Karl Barth's theology displays and mobilizes
the power of Barth's thinking and praxis for present-day
socio-historical biblical exegesis, including ecumenical,
intercultural, interreligious, and liberating theology and
praxis.
—Prof. Dr. Ulrich Duchrow, University of Heidelberg, Germany.
Chung offers an incisive interpretation of Karl Barth's relevance
not only for contemporary liberation and political theologies but
for Christian theology's engagement with Judaism and other
religions. Especially intriguing is his reading of Barth's
appropriation of Luther's Christology, a reading that roots the
"liberative" dimensions of Barth's theology in God's humanity in
Christ.
—Lois Malcolm, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology, Luther
Seminary.
Product Details
- Title : Karl Barth: God’s Word in Action
- Author: Chung, Paul S.
- Publisher: Cascade Books
- Publication Date: 2008
- ISBN: 9781498270311