Chris Swann

The Dialectics of Discipleship

Karl Barth, Sanctification and Theological Ethics
Herausgeber: Brock, Brian; Parsons, Susan F

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780567708823
• ISBN-10: 0567708829
• Artikelnr.: 70272671

Autorenporträt

Chris Swann is Director of Training for City to City Australia as well as adjunct lecturer in Ministry and Practice at Ridley College, Australia

Inhaltsangabe

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: Discipleship and the Shaping of Correspondence Part II. Discipleship
and Theological Ethics in Barth Chapter six: Discipleship, Christian
Living, and Moral Agency Chapter seven: Discipleship, Ecclesiology, and
Moral Ecology Chapter eight: Discipleship, Christian Suffering, and Moral
Passion Part III. Resourcing the Contemporary "Turn" to Discipleship
Chapter nine: With, Against, and Beyond Barth on Discipleship Conclusion:
The Significance of Discipleship for Theological Ethics