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Sommario
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1
Introduction
Chapter 2
Election and the Defeat of Satan
Chapter 3
The Judgement of Satan's World
Chapter 4
God's Covenant with Death
Chapter 5
God's Eschatological Justification
Chapter 6
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Info autore
Declan Kelly holds a PhD in systematic theology from the University of Aberdeen, UK.
Riassunto
This book offers an innovative, critical, and constructive exploration of Barth’s theology, one which demonstrates the radicality of his thought and which underscores the continued contribution he might make to theological reflection on a central element of the Christian tradition.
Declan Kelly uncovers the promise of viewing Barth’s account of salvation as a “three-agent drama”—a drama involving God, humanity, and anti-God powers. Kelly demonstrates and examines Barth’s cosmological portrayal of God’s saving event as a defeat of the lordship of Satan in the cosmos—and, bound up with this, as an ending of God’s “left handed” activity—and as the bringing into existence of a new creation under the rule of God’s right hand. Barth’s doctrines of election, the atonement, and the resurrection receive a fresh reading as the book explores his apocalyptic grasp of God’s eschatological deed of salvation and as it puts forward the claim—with and against Barth—that the climax of this deed of salvation is best located in the event of God’s raising of Christ from the dead.
Prefazione
Offers a fresh interpretation of Karl Barth's soteriology, his doctrine of salvation, by examining a dialogue with both the advocates and critics of 'three-agent' accounts of salvation.
Testo aggiuntivo
Declan Kelly subjects Barth's soteriology in Church Dogmatics to a fresh and remarkable interpretation. He points to a cosmological depth dimension of Barth's soteriology and shows that, in the wake of the doctrine of election, Barth conceives the doctrine of salvation as a three-agent drama. As a result, this study succeeds in uncovering, among other important things, new patterns of continuity (especially with CD III/3, §50 and CD IV/3, §69) that have been overlooked in the previous exclusively forensic interpretation of CD IV/1, §59. This book represents an important contribution to Barth research.
