Karl Barth''s Moral Thought

Gerald McKenny follows Barth's efforts to present God's grace as a moral norm in his treatments of divine commands, moral reasoning, responsibility, and agency.

List of contents

• Abbreviations


• 1: Karl Barth's Theological Ethics


• 2: The Command of God as a Moral Norm


• 3: The Command of God as a Morally Binding Norm


• 4: The Continuity of God's Commands


• 5: Hearing God's Command


• 6: Responsibility and the Moral Subject


• 7: Divine Action and Human Action


• Conclusion


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Gerald McKenny is Walter Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. His publications include Biotechnology, Human Nature, and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2018), The Analogy of Grace: Karl Barth's Moral Theology (Oxford University Press, 2010), and To Relieve the Human Condition: Bioethics, Technology, and the Body (SUNY Press, 1997).

Summary

Gerald McKenny follows Barth's efforts to present God's grace as a moral norm in his treatments of divine commands, moral reasoning, responsibility, and agency.

Additional text

McKenny's work is an important intervention in Barth studies as well as in theological ethics. Theologians interested in Barth as well as ethicists concerned with command, responsibility, and habit will profit from McKenny's careful work.

Product details

• Authors: Gerald Mckenny, Gerald (Walter Professor of Theology Mckenny, McKenny Gerald
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.08.2021
• EAN: 9780192845528
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284552-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Oxford Studies in Theological Ethics
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, RELIGION / Ethics, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Religious ethics