Into the Far Country: Karl Barth and the Modern Subject - Hardcover

Long, D. Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1506401376 ISBN 13: 9781506401379

Verlag: Fortress Press, 2016

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Into the Far Country is an investigation of Karl Barth's response to modernity as seen through the prism of the subject under judgment. By suggesting that Barth offers a form of theological resistance to the Enlightenment's construal of human subjectivity as "absolute," this piece offers a way of talking about the formation of human persons as the process of being kenotically laid bare before the cross and resurrection of Christ. It does so by revaluating the relationship between Barth and modernity, making the case that Barth understands Protestantism to have become the agent of its own demise by capitulating to modernity's insistence on the axiomatic priority of the isolated Cartesian ego. Conversations are hosted with figures including Fyodor Dostoevsky, Rowan Williams, Gillian Rose and Donald MacKinnon in-the service of elucidating an account of the human person liberated from captivity to what Barth names "self-judgment," and freed for creative participation in the super-abundant source of life that is the prayerful movement from the Son to the Father in the Spirit.

Biografía del autor:

Scott A. Kirkland earned a PhD in theology from the University of Newcastle in Australia. He is an honorary postdoctoral research associate at the University of Divinity, Melbourne. He is coeditor of the volume Correlating Sobornost: Conversations between Karl Barth and the Russian Orthodox Tradition (Fortress Press, 2016).

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• Verlag: Fortress Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1506401376
• ISBN 13: 9781506401379
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 280