The Hastening that Waits: Karl Barth's Ethics / Edition 1

by Nigel Biggar

Overview

This book offers a fresh and up-to-date account of the ethical thought of Karl Barth, one of the twentieth century's greatest theologians. In it, the author seeks to recover Barth's ethics from some widespread misunderstandings, and also presents a picture of it as a whole. Drawing on recently published sources, Biggar construes the ethics of the Church Dogmatics as it might have been had Barth lived to complete it. However, The Hastening that Waits is more than apology and description. For it recommends to contemporary Christian ethics the theological rigor with which Barth expounds the good life in terms of the living presence of God-in-Christ to his creatures; his conception of right human action as that which is able to hasten in the service of humanity precisely by waiting prayerfully upon God; and his discriminate openness to moral wisdom outside the Christian church. Among particular topics treated are: the concepts of human freedom and of created moral order; moral norms and their relation to individual vocation; the relative ethical roles of the Bible, the Church, philosophy, and empirical science; moral character and its formation; and the problem of war.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198263906
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/25/1996
Series:	Oxford Studies in Theological Ethics
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.44(h) x 0.54(d)
Lexile:	1600L (what's this?)

About the Author

Wycliffe Hall, Oxford

Editorial Reviews

"Of considerable interest to specialists"—First Things

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