Doxological Theology : Karl Barth on Divine Providence, Evil, and the Angels.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Karl Barth's "Radical Correction" of the Protestant Orthodox Doctrine in III/3 -- I: Introduction -- II: Two Readings of Barth's "Radical Correction" -- III: Conservatio in Göttingen Dogmatics, 20 -- IV: The "Radical Correction" in Church Dogmatics II/1 and II/2 -- V: The "Radical Correction" in 48 and its Implications for III/3 -- VI: The Fatherhood of God in the Rest of III/3 -- VII: Conclusion -- 3 49.1, The Divine Preserving -- I: Introduction -- II: Preservation and the Atonement -- III: Barth's Four Delineations for the Divine Preservation -- IV: Conclusion -- 4 49.2, The Divine Accompanying -- I: Introduction -- II: The Question of Concursus -- III: Background to Concursus in 49.2 -- IV: Expositional Analysis of Concursus in 49.2 -- V: Analysis: The Holy Spirit's Role in 49.2 -- VI: Conclusion -- 5 49.3, The Divine Ruling -- I: Introduction -- II: The Eschatological Tension of the Kingdom in 49.3 -- III: Extant Readings of the Eschatological Tension in 49.3 -- IV: Textual Analysis of Gubernatio in 49.3 -- V: An Engagement with Barth on the "Extent" of the Divine Government -- VI: Two United Standpoints for Gubernatio in 49.3 -- VII: The Eschatological Tension in the Lord's Prayer -- VIII: Conclusion -- 6 49.4, The Christian Under the Universal Lordship of God the Father -- I: Introduction -- II: The Position of 49.4 in III/3 and the Lord's Prayer -- III: Faith, Obedience, and Prayer -- IV: Prayer and the Lord's Prayer -- V: Praying Through the Rest of III/3 -- 7 50, God and Nothingness -- I: Introduction -- II: The Temptation to Metaphysical "Confusion" -- III: The Ordering of 50: Plan or Paradox? -- IV: Barth's Straightforward Description of the Nihil -- V: Election, the "Shadow Side," and Theological Temptation in 49.1.

VI: Participation and the Nihil in 50 -- VII: Conclusion -- 8 51, The Kingdom of Heaven, the Ambassadors of God, and their Opponents -- I: Introduction -- II: Resurrection and Doxology -- III: Angelic Praise -- IV: "Analytic" Praise: The Content of Heavenly Doxology -- V: Conclusion -- 9 Conclusion: A Doxological Theology -- I: The "Radical Correction" Revisited -- II: Participation and the Father -- III: Heavenly Praise and the Afterlife -- IV: Sinking Peter, the Theologian -- Bibliography -- Index of Subjects -- A -- C -- D -- E -- G -- H -- I -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.

In 1949, Karl Barth confidently upholds a high doctrine of divine providence, main-taining God's control of every event in history. His argument is at once cheerful, but also defiant in the face of a Europe that is war-weary and doubtful of the full sovereignty of God. Barth's movement to praise God shows his affin-ity for the Reformed theological tradition. While Barth often distances himself from his Calvinist predecessors in important ways, he sees his own view of providence to be a positive reworking of the Reformed position in order to maintain what he un-derstands as its most important insights: the praiseworthiness of the God of provi-dence and the doxology of the creature. Doxological Theology investigates how the theologian, in response to the praiseworthy God of the Reformed tradition, is ex-pected to pray his or her way through the doctrine of providence.

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