Church As Moral Community : Karl Barth's Vision of Christian Life, 1915-1922.

COVER -- HALF TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- SERIES PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 READING BARTH'S ETHICS -- On Approaching the Study of Barth's Ethics -- Criticisms of Barth's Ethics -- The Criticisms Reviewed -- Recent Re-evaluation of Barth's Ethics -- Nigel Biggar -- John Webster -- Reading Barth's Ecclesial Ethics -- Stanley Hauerwas -- The 'New Ecclesiology' -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 2 IN SEARCH OF A NEW WORLD -- Karl Barth's Dispute with Liberalism -- On the Eve of War -- Ethics in Crisis -- The Young Socialist Pastor -- A Matter of Praxis -- Into the Church -- 'The Righteousness of God' -- The Voice of Conscience and the Hearing of Faith -- Lights of God in the Darkness -- 'Action in Waiting' -- The Influence of Blumhardt -- The Living Church -- Prophetic Existence -- Finding the New World -- Encountered by the Reality of God -- The 'Worldliness' of the Triune God -- The Nature of Barth's Ecclesial Ethics -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 3 LIFE IN THE THIRD DIMENSION: DER RÖMERBRIEF (1919) -- The Composition and Purpose of Romans I -- The Theological Framework of Romans I -- The Two-Dimensional World -- Humanity under Sin -- The Victory of Life -- Origins of Barth's Theological Framework -- The Question of Human Agency -- Barth's Critique of Religion and Ethics -- Barth's Polemic against Pietism -- Immoral Morality -- Ethical Idealism in Barth? -- Life in the Third Dimension: Christian Existence in Romans I -- The Movement of God -- The Body of Christ -- The Nature of Barth's Ecclesial Ethics -- The Command of the Moment -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 4 LIFE IN THE SHADOW OF DEATH? -- The Bourgeois Church: Measured and Found Wanting -- 'The Christian's Place in Society' -- Barth's Tambach Lecture -- The Hope of the Christian: Divine and Human Action -- The Posture of the Christian: Critical Affirmation.

The Activity of the Christian: Sub Specie Aeternitatis -- Following after God: A Community of Discernment -- The Influence of Overbeck -- Between Overbeck and Blumhardt -- A New Christianity -- 'Biblical Questions, Insights and Vistas' -- The Bible and the Knowledge of God -- Genuine Biblical Piety -- The Wisdom of Death -- Life in the Shadow of Death: Sermons on 2 Corinthians -- Touched by Eternity in the Midst of Time -- Called as an Individual -- Forgiveness and Freedom -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 5 DER RÖMERBRIEF (1922): A THEORY OF PRAXIS -- Review and Revision -- Romans 1-11: The Theory of Praxis -- The Sovereignty of God -- Divine Revelation and Human Faith -- The Critique of Religion and the Nature of Faith -- The Church in Romans II -- Interlude: An inconsistency in Barth's Theology -- The New Subject and the Imperative of Grace -- Romans 12-13: The Theory of Praxis -- The Problem and Presupposition of Ethics -- Positive and Negative Possibilities -- The 'Great' Negative Possibility -- The 'Great' Positive Possibility -- Conclusion: Romans II and the Ethics of Grace -- Postscript: 'The Problem of Ethics Today' -- CHAPTER 6 THE CHURCH AS MORAL COMMUNITY: CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS -- Karl Barth's Ecclesio-Ethical Theology I:The Shape of his Vision -- An Ethics of Grace -- A Responsive Ethics -- An Eschatological Ethics -- An Ethics of Witness -- A Communitarian Ethics -- A Universal Ethics -- Karl Barth's Ecclesio-Ethical Theology II: Why Barth's Ethics are Necessarily an Ecclesial Ethics -- The Work of the Holy Spirit -- The Centrality of Prayer -- Conclusion -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

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