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Zusatztext In this constructive study, Chris Swann identifies the theme of discipleship as the governing motif in Karl Barth’s theology of sanctification. Swann carefully contrasts Barth’s program with the Reformers’ and develops his argument in close and critical interaction with Barth scholarship past and present. Given the growing number of cursory accounts of discipleship, this study offers a much-needed corrective as Swann carefully probes the theological intricacies of discipleship and teases out their moral implications.Theologically astute and pastorally sensitive, Chris Swann recovers the importance of Christian discipleship for church and academy today. This study will be of considerable value both to the Barth scholar and any reader seeking a more nuanced account of discipleship that is firmly rooted in the doctrine of sanctification. Informationen zum Autor Chris Swann is Director of Training for City to City Australia as well as adjunct lecturer in Ministry and Practice at Ridley College, Australia Klappentext Interrogating Barth's discipleship-shaped vision of sanctification, this book investigates both Lutheran and Calvinian source material to develop an account that differs markedly from other Lutheran and Calvinist perspectives. Highlighting the robustly theological and Christ-centred character of Barth's account, Chris Swann demonstrates that, far from merely valorising human activity, Barth advances an understanding of human moral agency, action, and suffering that is real but relative to the agency of God in Christ to which it corresponds analogously. With a focus on the role the image of discipleship plays in giving conceptual structure and shape to Barth's distinctive account of the correspondence between divine agency and sanctified human agency, this book evaluates the ramifications of his discipleship-shaped vision of sanctification. In doing this, it gives special attention to Barth's own personal mixed record with regard to Christian discipleship. Ultimately, Swann retrieves a number of important resources for contemporary theological ethics from Barth's theology of discipleship. Vorwort Critically evaluates the under-appreciated emphasis on discipleship in Barth’s late doctrine of sanctification (in Church Dogmatics IV/2) and establishes its significance for theological ethics Zusammenfassung Interrogating Barth’s discipleship-shaped vision of sanctification, this book investigates both Lutheran and Calvinian source material to develop an account that differs markedly from other Lutheran and Calvinist perspectives. Highlighting the robustly theological and Christ-centred character of Barth’s account, Chris Swann demonstrates that, far from merely valorising human activity, Barth advances an understanding of human moral agency, action, and suffering that is real but relative to the agency of God in Christ to which it corresponds analogously. With a focus on the role the image of discipleship plays in giving conceptual structure and shape to Barth’s distinctive account of the correspondence between divine agency and sanctified human agency, this book evaluates the ramifications of his discipleship-shaped vision of sanctification. In doing this, it gives special attention to Barth’s own personal mixed record with regard to Christian discipleship. Ultimately, Swann retrieves a number of important resources for contemporary theological ethics from Barth’s theology of discipleship. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Contemporary “Turn” to Discipleship Part I. The Turn to Discipleship in Barth Chapter one: Barth and His Critics on Discipleship Chapter two: The Problem and Promise of Discipleship in Church Dogmatics IV/2 Chapter three: Discipleship and the Dialectics of Freedom in §66.3 Chapter four: Discipleship and the Shape of Correspondence in §66 Chapter five: Discipl...
