Barth and Schleiermacher on the Doctrine of Election: A Systematic-Theological Comparison
The first detailed comparison between the theologies of Friedrich Schleiermacher and the early dialectical theology of Karl Barth. Matthias Gockel shows that the doctrine of election in Barth's early theology bears a remarkable resemblance to the position of Schleiermacher. He challenges the conventional wisdom that these two positions - or 'liberal theology' and 'dialectical theology' - stand in irreconcilable opposition. Barth articulates a fresh assessment of the doctrine not only in Church Dogmatics II/2, but in the second edition of his Epistle to the Romans and in his first series of lectures on Systematic Theology, the so-called Göttingen Dogmatics. Hence, a resemblance between Schleiermacher and Barth is already discernible in Barth's early theology - at a time when he was writing his most virulent criticisms of Schleiermacher.
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Barth and Schleiermacher on the Doctrine of Election: A Systematic-Theological Comparison
The first detailed comparison between the theologies of Friedrich Schleiermacher and the early dialectical theology of Karl Barth. Matthias Gockel shows that the doctrine of election in Barth's early theology bears a remarkable resemblance to the position of Schleiermacher. He challenges the conventional wisdom that these two positions - or 'liberal theology' and 'dialectical theology' - stand in irreconcilable opposition. Barth articulates a fresh assessment of the doctrine not only in Church Dogmatics II/2, but in the second edition of his Epistle to the Romans and in his first series of lectures on Systematic Theology, the so-called Göttingen Dogmatics. Hence, a resemblance between Schleiermacher and Barth is already discernible in Barth's early theology - at a time when he was writing his most virulent criticisms of Schleiermacher.
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Barth and Schleiermacher on the Doctrine of Election: A Systematic-Theological Comparison

Barth and Schleiermacher on the Doctrine of Election: A Systematic-Theological Comparison

by Matthias Gockel
Barth and Schleiermacher on the Doctrine of Election: A Systematic-Theological Comparison

Barth and Schleiermacher on the Doctrine of Election: A Systematic-Theological Comparison

by Matthias Gockel

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The first detailed comparison between the theologies of Friedrich Schleiermacher and the early dialectical theology of Karl Barth. Matthias Gockel shows that the doctrine of election in Barth's early theology bears a remarkable resemblance to the position of Schleiermacher. He challenges the conventional wisdom that these two positions - or 'liberal theology' and 'dialectical theology' - stand in irreconcilable opposition. Barth articulates a fresh assessment of the doctrine not only in Church Dogmatics II/2, but in the second edition of his Epistle to the Romans and in his first series of lectures on Systematic Theology, the so-called Göttingen Dogmatics. Hence, a resemblance between Schleiermacher and Barth is already discernible in Barth's early theology - at a time when he was writing his most virulent criticisms of Schleiermacher.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780191525278
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication date: 01/04/2007
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 548 KB

About the Author

Matthias Gockel is assistant pastor in a congregation near Wittenberg, Germany.

Table of Contents


Introduction: 'Quite close-excuse me-to Schleiermacher     1
Barth on Election     1
Barth on Schleiermacher     5
Barth and Schleiermacher     9
Probing the Tradition: Schleiermacher's Revision of the Doctrine in his Essay on Election     16
Unconditional Grace and Predestination     18
Election and General Redemption through Christ     22
One Divine Decree     26
God, Sin, and Eternal Damnation     30
A Universal Predestination to Salvation in Christ: The Doctrine of Election in The Christian Faith     37
Theology, the Church, and Christianity     38
The Fundamental Difference between God and the World     46
Sin, Grace, and Redemption through Jesus     57
Summary and Critical Evaluation     98
From Reprobation to Election: Earth's Revision of the Doctrine of Election in his Commentary on Romans     104
Predestination as an Act of God     105
Reprobation and Election     115
Jesus Christ and God's Universal Faithfulness     124
To Believe or not to Believe: The Doctrine of Election in the Gottingen Dogmatics     134
The Function of the Doctrine     135
God's Revelation in Hiddenness     139
The Teleology ofGod     144
Summary: Earth's Earlier Doctrine of Election     156
Earth's Christological Revolution     158
Lectures on the 'Big Theme' of Election in 1936 and 1937     159
The Revision of the Doctrine in Church Dogmatics II/2     164
The Changes in Earth's Doctrine of Election     195
Conclusion: Earth and Schleiermacher on Election: A Challenge for Twenty-First-Century Theology     198
Bibliography     212
Name Index     223
Subject Index     226
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