Hastening That Waits - Karl Barth''s Ethics

Zusatztext Clearly written and well structured book ... This book will reward anyone who engages seriously with Barth's ethics! provoking many fresh insights and the desire to argue on points of detail. Zusammenfassung This book offers a fresh and up-to-date account of the ethical thought of one of the twentieth century's greatest theologians: Karl Barth. In it, the author seeks to recover Barth's ethics from some widespread misunderstandings, and also presents a picture of it as a whole. Drawing on recently published sources, Dr Biggar construes the ethics of the Church Dogmatics as it might have been had Barth lived to complete it. However, The Hastening that Waits is more than apology and description. For it recommends to contemporary Christian ethics the theological rigour with which Barth expounds the good life in terms of the living presence of God-in-Christ to his creatures; his conception of right human action as that which is able to hasten in the service of humanity precisely by waiting prayerfully upon God; and his discriminate openness to moral wisdom outside the Christian church.Among particular topics treated are: the concept of human freedom and of created moral order; moral norms and their relation to individual vocation; the relative ethical roles of the Bible, the Church, philosophy, and empirical science; moral character and its formation; and the problem of war.

Product details

• Authors: Nigel Biggar, Nigel (Chaplain and Fellow Biggar, Biggar Nigel
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.03.1993
• EAN: 9780198264576
• ISBN: 978-0-19-826457-6
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Oxford Studies in Theological Ethics; Oxford Studies in Theological Ethics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -