Karl Barth and Post-Reformation Orthodoxy

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-05318-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 284 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 439 g

Reihe: Barth Studies

Throughout his magnum opus, Church Dogmatics, Karl Barth converses with the great theologians of post-reformation orthodoxy, quoting from works in his private collection. When Barth became Honorary Professor of Reformed Theology at the University of Göttingen in 1921, his knowledge of the Reformed tradition was practically non-existent; he quickly amassed his collection of ancient copies in order to acquire a thorough knowledge of orthodoxy. In Karl Barth and Post-Reformation Orthodoxy, Rinse H. Reeling Brouwer identifies and discusses the sources of Barth's conversations and analyses Barth's use and (mis)understandings of them. Each chapter focuses on one of the topics in Christian Dogmatics, with the last chapter exploring the way in which Barth's role as a reader of the 19th-century writer of a textbook on Reformed Dogmatics Heinrich Heppe influenced the ultimate shaping of Church Dogmatics. Reeling Brouwer offers a major contribution to Barth scholarship and an important resource for theologians as well as historians focusing on the post-reformation protestant theology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brouwer, Rinse H. Reeling

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Chapter 1 Karl Barth’s Conversation with Amandus Polanus; Chapter 2 Karl Barth’s Elaboration of a Series of Disputations from the Leiden Synopsis; Chapter 3 Johannes Cocceius and Karl Barth; Chapter 4 Karl Barth Reading the Reformed Doctrine of the Church in Heppe; Chapter 5 Karl Barth and the Janus Face of the Doctrine of Justification in ‘Reasonable Orthodoxy’; Chapter 6 Some Consequences of Barth’s Encounter with Heppe for the Order of the Church Dogmatics;

Über Autor(innen)

Rinse H. Reeling Brouwer was born in 1953. He has been a minister in the Protestant Church in the Netherlands since 1982. In 1988 he defended his PhD dissertation at the University of Amsterdam on the Marquardt-thesis on socialist elements in the thinking of Karl Barth. From 1997 onwards he has taught as a senior lecturer in the History of Christian Doctrine at the Theological University of Kampen; since 2009 he has been editor of the Zeitschrift für dialektische Theologie; and in 2012 he became Professor at the Miskotte/Breukelman Chair at the Protestant Theological University in Amsterdam. He is the author of Dutch books on Spinoza and Reformed Theology (1998), Calvin (2004), and a textbook on the History of Systematic Theology (2009). He edited Frans H. Breukelman, The Structure of Sacred Doctrine in Calvin’s Theology (Grand Rapids, Michigan/Cambridge, UK: William B. Eerdmans, 2010).