TY - CHAP
T1 - Ethics and the Catastrophe of Grace
T2 - Faith’s Obedience in the Ruins of Religion
AU - Ziegler, Philip
PY - 2022/5/23
Y1 - 2022/5/23
N2 - With its emphasis upon the humanly catastrophic consequences of the radical transcendence of God and of divine grace, the second edition of Karl Barth’s Romans should be deeply inhospitable to ethics and utterly unaccommo- dating of the concerns of moral theology. And yet, across his exegesis of chapters 6 and 12 in particular, Barth both elaborates a fulsome account of the presuppo- sitions of a Christian ethic and outlines a vision of Christian moral action as sac- rificial and parabolic witness at once ‘impossible’ and yet ‘actual’ in virtue of God’s justifying grace. In conversation at key junctures with Kierkegaard, this essay examines the fundaments of Barth’s radical evangelical ethics as we meet it on the pages of his controversial commentary.
AB - With its emphasis upon the humanly catastrophic consequences of the radical transcendence of God and of divine grace, the second edition of Karl Barth’s Romans should be deeply inhospitable to ethics and utterly unaccommo- dating of the concerns of moral theology. And yet, across his exegesis of chapters 6 and 12 in particular, Barth both elaborates a fulsome account of the presuppo- sitions of a Christian ethic and outlines a vision of Christian moral action as sac- rificial and parabolic witness at once ‘impossible’ and yet ‘actual’ in virtue of God’s justifying grace. In conversation at key junctures with Kierkegaard, this essay examines the fundaments of Barth’s radical evangelical ethics as we meet it on the pages of his controversial commentary.
U2 - 10.1515/9783110752908-021
DO - 10.1515/9783110752908-021
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-3110750522
T3 - Theologische Bibliothek Töpelmann
SP - 335
EP - 347
BT - Karl Barth’s Epistle to the Romans
A2 - Chalamet, Christophe
A2 - Dettwiler, Andreas
A2 - Stewart-Kroeker, Sarah
PB - de Gruyter
CY - Berlin
ER -