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However reluctant he may be about providing details, Karl Barth dares to affirm the coming resurrection, even in the strong corporeal sense of the Apostles Creed, “I believe in . . . the resurrection of the flesh.” At the heart of Barth’s creative approach is an equation between revelation and resurrection. Indeed, everything said about the human addressed now in revelation is to be said about the human at the coming resurrection, including the remarkable fact that resurrection raises the “flesh” (inasmuch as God has revealed Himself to those “in the flesh”). Barth’s early training inculcated in him dialectical themes that would emerge throughout his career. His early work is dominated by a sense of encounter with the present but transcendent God, an encounter described in terms of the raising of the dead. Human existence is sublated – “dissolved and established” – unto a higher order in God. Yet even after Barth abandons the resurrection of the dead as his preferred theological axiom, he portrays eschatology proper in terms of the human sublated in the divine presence. Therefore, in Church Dogmatics he expresses the doctrine of the resurrection of the flesh in three primary ways: eternalization, manifestation and incorporation. The human, delimited as he or she is by death, is made durable in God, obtaining the gift of eternalization. The human, ambiguous in the creaturely mode of earthly life, has one’s true identity revealed with Christ at His return, and obtains the gift of manifestation with the divine. The human, isolated as he or she is in one’s autonomy, is incorporated into the body of Christ by His Spirit, obtaining the gift of communion. In each of these expressions of resurrection Barth desires to preserve fleshliness. His account, however, entails a certain loss of temporality, creatureliness and particularity of the human when it comes to the final state. Instead of being resurrected from the dead in the strong corporeal sense, human bodies appear to be memorialized, deified, recapitulated. Though written with the language of the Antiochene and Reformed schools, Barth’s position enjoys the same strengths and suffers the same weaknesses of a more Alexandrian or Lutheran theological trajectory. Like each of the traditional lines of Christian thought about the resurrection of the flesh, Barth gravitates toward an eschatology centered around the human’s vision of God in the heavenly life. To this extent Barth’s creative treatment of the resurrection of the dead can be understood as broadly Christian, even if he risks undermining the very flesh he hopes to save.

Thesis (doctoral)--Bochum, Universiẗat, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-209).

This dissertation analyses and critically evaluates an aspect of Karl Barth's thought, the understanding of which is important to a broader understanding of Barth, his relationship to other (especially iconoclastic) thinkers, and his relevance for contemporary theology: his understanding and critique of idolatry and the idol. Chapter 2 argues that it was revelation which both drove Barth's idolatry-critique and determined his concepts of idolatry and the idol. It analyses Bath's idolatry-critique as it was levelled against natural theology, and offers an evaluation of the picture of Barth's thought which emerges. Chapter 3 analyses Barth's idolatry-critique in relation to the doctrine of God. Directives which, for Barth, had to be adhered to within the development of the doctrine of God for the avoidance of idolatry, are discussed. Finally, an evaluation and critique of Barth's critique of idolatry within the doctrine of God, and of his own adherence to these directives, is offered. Chapter 4 analyses the relationship of Barth's idolatry-critique to his discussion of religion. It is shown that Barth, in his mature thought, criticised both the essence of religion and certain theological uses of the concept of religion as idolatry. Barth's critique of religion as idolatry is itself subjected to critique, and the question of what bearing his critique of religion as idolatry ought to have for Christian, theological engagement with adherents of other world religions is taken up. Chapter 5 summarises and discusses further some of the findings and implications of this study. It is suggested that Barth's thoroughly christological critique of idolatry (which is not without its own problems), in that it stands in contrast to the less particularistic forms of idolatry-critique set forth by several other modern scholars, raises the question of whether an idolatry-critique like his own might be called for within contemporary theology.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Zürich, 2003/04. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-342) and index.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T19:20:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Julio Cesar Silveira da Silva.pdf: 499411 bytes, checksum: a522ce664d7c27643674378f65024a8b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-11-10 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Karl Barth (1886 - 1968), a native of Basel, Switzerland, was a Reformed theologian and pastor of exponential expression. Barth had his theological education guided by the primary matrix of theological liberalism. During the First World War, however, before the calamity that has taken place, Barth became disenchanted with the liberal Protestant horizon, with its modern worldview, his theology and his immanentist utopia of social redemption grounded in belief in the progress of reason. The result was the rapprochement of Barth with classical Reformed tradition and the emergence of a theological approach that rescues principles of Christian orthodoxy and updates them with elements of modernity, namely the neo-orthodoxy. However, with the transcendent criterion not reason or aesthetics, but the Word of God attested in Scripture, and Jesus, understood as the incarnation of God as a hermeneutical key. The object of the dissertation, in its material dimension, is the Declaration of Barmer, and in its formal dimension, Barthian theology. The dissertation aims to analyze the historical and political conditions that favored the accession of the German Evangelical Church to the Nazis, and the correlation of positive theological presuppositions of Christianity with the liberal Protestantism. The course in research allows us to conclude that whenever theology loses a sense of the transcendent character and extraordinary revelation, human words are taken as divine. And this is not no harm to the Christian faith. Barth's theology provides a great service by emphasizing the transcendence of God's Word to all human words. Despite dialectically to use them to communicate, it transcends them and puts them into crisis, because it is perfect and eternal as the theologies, philosophies, ethics and policies are imperfect and incomplete. Therefore, the Christian community should be aware that if he wants to be faithful to her calling, she can never align itself automatically to any creed or political party and ideology, but to the Gospel / Karl Barth (1886 1968), natural da Basiléia, Suíça, foi um pastor e teólogo reformado de expressão exponencial. Barth teve sua educação teológica primária orientada pelas matrizes do liberalismo teológico. Durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, porém, diante da tamanha calamidade que se instalou, Barth se desencantou com o horizonte protestante liberal, com sua cosmovisão moderna, sua teologia imanentista e sua utopia de redenção social calcada na crença no progresso da razão. O resultado disso foi a reaproximação de Barth com a tradição reformada clássica e o surgimento de uma abordagem teológica que resgata princípios da ortodoxia cristã e os atualiza com elementos da modernidade, a saber, a neo-ortodoxia. Todavia, tendo como critério transcendente não a razão ou a estética, e sim, a Palavra de Deus testemunhada nas Escrituras Sagradas, tendo Jesus, entendido como a encarnação de Deus, como chave hermenêutica. O objeto da dissertação, em sua dimensão material, é a Declaração de Barmem, e em sua dimensão formal, a teologia barthiana. A dissertação objetivou analisar as condições históricas e políticas que favoreceram a adesão da Igreja Evangélica Alemã ao nazismo, e a correlação de pressupostos teológicos do cristianismo positivo com o protestantismo liberal. O percurso na pesquisa nos permite concluir que sempre que a teologia perde a noção do caráter transcendente e extraordinário da revelação, palavras humanas são tomadas como divinas. E isso não acontece sem causar prejuízos à fé cristã. A teologia de Barth presta um grande serviço ao salientar a transcendência da Palavra de Deus a todas as palavras humanas. A despeito de se servir delas dialeticamente para se comunicar, ela as transcende e as põe em crise, porque é perfeita e eterna enquanto as teologias, as filosofias, as éticas e as políticas são imperfeitas e incompletas. Portanto, a comunidade cristã deve estar ciente de que se ele quer ser fiel ao seu chamado, ela jamais poderá se alinhar automaticamente a qualquer credo e partido político e ideológico, senão ao Evangelho

Habilitationsschrift--Bern, 1977. / Includes indexes. Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-162).

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:20:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Adriani Milli.pdf: 1717178 bytes, checksum: ab4d894d16acfce757d4d059aa126d04 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-12-16 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The critique of religion is a recurrent theme on modern thought and appears even in the theology of this period. In this context, the present study focus on the comparison of the critique on religion in Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonheffer s thought. Therefore, the dissertation is organized in four main parts. Initially, it s done a contextualization of the western conception on religion and it s modern critique, including the theological ambit. Next, it s describe the conception and the critiques of religion on Barth and Bonhoeffer`s thought. Finally, a comparison it s made between both authors, on which delineate approximations and dissimilitudes of the critiques on religion of this two theologians. In a broad way, these two critiques indicate distortions of Christianity and proposals of restorations. As a key to comparison is the perception that Barth criticize religion on the perspectives of revelation, whereas Bonhoeffer makes his criticism on the perspective of life.(AU) / A crítica da religião é um tema recorrente no pensamento moderno e aparece até mesmo na teologia desse período. Nesse contexto, o presente estudo procura comparar a crítica da religião no pensamento de Karl Barth e Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Para tanto, a dissertação está organizada em quatro partes principais. Inicialmente, é feita uma contextualização da concepção ocidental de religião e sua crítica moderna, inclusive no âmbito teológico. A seguir são descritas a concepção e a crítica da religião no pensamento de Barth e Bonhoeffer. Finalmente, é realizada uma comparação entre ambos, que procura delinear aproximações e distanciamentos da crítica da religião desses dois teólogos. De maneira ampla, as duas críticas apontam distorções do Cristianismo e indicam propostas de restauração. Como chave geral de comparação está a percepção de que Barth critica a religião n a perspectiva da revelação enquanto Bonhoeffer faz sua crítica na perspectiva da vida.(AU)