Karl Barth's Analogy of Beauty

Its Basis and Implications for Theological Aesthetics

Andrew Dunstan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

234 Seiten

2023
Routledge (Verlag)
9781032109503 (ISBN)

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This book provides the first comprehensive examination of Karl Barth’s view of beauty. For over fifty years, scholars have assumed Barth recovered traditional belief in God’s beauty but refused to entertain any relationship between this and more familiar natural and artistic beauties. Hans Urs von Balthasar was the first to offer this interpretation, and his conclusion has been echoed ever since, rendering Barth’s view of beauty irrelevant to work in theological aesthetics. This volume continues the late-twentieth-century revision of Balthasar’s interpretation of Barth by arguing that this too is a significant misunderstanding of his theology. Andrew Dunstan demonstrates that, through an encounter with fatalistic forms of Reformed theology, Brunner’s charges that his dogmatics were irrelevant and medieval thought, Barth gradually developed an analogy of divine, ecclesial and worldly beauty with all the theological, christocentric and actualistic hallmarks of his previous forms of analogy. This not only yields valuable new insight into Barth’s view of analogy but also provides a much-needed foundation for a distinctively Protestant and post-Barthian approach to theological aesthetics.

Andrew Dunstan (DPhil, University of Oxford) is Lecturer in Systematic Theology at Malyon Theological College, the Australian College of Theology.

Preface

Introduction

Part I: Analogia Gloriae

1 Barth’s Concept of Analogy (1919–1968)

2 Barth’s Concept of Natural Revelation (1919–1968)

3 Barth’s Analogia Gloriae (1940)

Part II: Analogia Pulchritudinis

4 Antecedents: Barth’s Rudimentary Analogy of Theological, Ecclesial and Worldly Beauty (1919–1940)

5 Climax: Barth’s Comprehensive Analogy of Theological, Ecclesial and Worldly Beauty in Church Dogmatics §31.3 (1940)

6 Final Confirmation: Barth’s Continuing Analogy of Theological, Ecclesial and Worldly Beauty (1940–1968)

Part III: Significance

7 Implications for Contemporary Theological Aesthetics

Conclusion

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	07.12.2021
Reihe/Serie	Barth Studies
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	460 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-13	9781032109503 / 9781032109503
Zustand	Neuware