Karl Barth`s Infralapsarian Theology – Origins and Development, 1920–1953

Shao Kai Tseng, George Hunsinger (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

319 Seiten

2016
Inter-Varsity Press,US (Verlag)
978-0-8308-5132-4 (ISBN)

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Scholars of Karl Barth's theology have been unanimous in labeling him a supralapsarian, largely because Barth identifies himself as such. In this groundbreaking and thoroughly researched work, Shao Kai Tseng argues that Barth was actually an infralapsarian, bringing Barth into conversation with recent studies in Puritan theology.

Theologians have long assumed that Karl Barth's doctrine of election is supralapsarian.
Challenging decades of scholarship, Shao Kai Tseng argues that despite Barth's stated favor of supralapsarianism, his mature lapsarian theology is complex and dialectical, critically reappropriating both supra- and infralapsarian patterns of thinking. Barth can be described as basically infralapsarian because he sees the object of election as fallen humankind and understands the incarnation as God's act of taking on human nature in its condition of fallenness.
In this New Explorations in Theology volume, Tseng shows that most of Barth's Reformed critics have not understood his doctrine of election accurately enough to recognize his affinity to infralapsarianism and, conversely, that most Barthians have not understood Reformed-orthodox formulations of election with sufficient accuracy in their disagreement with the tradition. Karl Barth's Infralapsarian Theology offers a clear understanding of both the historic Lapsarian Controversy and Barth's distinct form of lapsarianism, providing a charitable dialogue partner to aid mutual understanding between Barth and evangelicals.
Featuring new monographs with cutting-edge research, New Explorations in Theology provides a platform for constructive, creative work in the areas of systematic, historical, philosophical, biblical, and practical theology.

Shao Kai Tseng (DPhil, University of Oxford) is assistant professor of systematic theology at China Evangelical Seminary in Taipei, Taiwan. Previously he served as a pastor at Faith Chinese North American Baptist Church in his hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Foreword by George Hunsinger

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I: Reappraising Barth's Lapsarian Position

1. Supra- and Infralapsarianism in the Seventeenth Century: Some Definitions

2. Church Dogmatics §33: Barth?s Lapsarian Position Reassessed

Part II: Barth's Lapsarian Position In Development, 1920-1953

3.Römerbrief II (1920-1921): Lapsarianism in the "Impossible Possibility" Dialectic

4. The Göttingen-Münster Period (1921-1930): Christology and Predestination in the Subject-Object Dialectic

5. The Bonn Years (1930-1935): Human Talk and Divine Word—New Developments?

6. Gottes Gnadenwahl (1936): Infralapsarian Aspects of Barth's Christocentric Doctrine of Election

7. CD II/2 (1939-1942): Christ as Electing God and Elected Human—Lapsarianism "Purified"

8. CD IV/1 (1951-1953): Adamic History and History of Christ—Infralapsarian Tendencies in Barth's Doctrine of Sin

Conclusion

Bibliography

Author Index

Subject Index

Erscheinungsdatum	15.03.2016
Verlagsort	Illinois
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	448 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8308-5132-1 / 0830851321
ISBN-13	978-0-8308-5132-4 / 9780830851324
Zustand	Neuware