Beyond Immanence
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Beyond Immanence

The Theological Vision of Kierkegaard and Barth

  1. 400 pages
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eBook - ePub

Beyond Immanence

The Theological Vision of Kierkegaard and Barth

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Church Times
"As we traverse from the 19th and 20th centuries into the 21st, this important study reminds us that these voices challenging the myopia of immanence with the prospect of transcendence remain no less applicable to our plight now than they were then."
Christianity Today  Book Awards - Academic Theology Finalist (2024)
Critical insights into Kierkegaard's influence on Barth's theology.?

Karl Barth was often critical of Søren Kierkegaard's ideas as he understood them. But close reading of the two corpora reveals that Barth owes a lot to the melancholy Dane. Both conceive of God as infinitely qualitatively different from humans, and both emphasize the shocking nearness of God in the incarnation. As public intellectuals, they used this theological vision to protect Christocentric faith from political manipulation and compromise. For Kierkegaard, this meant criticizing the state church; for Barth, this entailed resisting Nazism.?? 

Meticulously crafted by a father-son team of renowned systematic theologians,  Beyond Immanence demonstrates that Kierkegaard and Barth share a theological trajectory—one that resists cynical manipulation of Christianity for political purposes in favor of uncompromising devotion to a God who is radically transcendent yet established kinship with humanity in time.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword by Paul Martens
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. Kierkegaard’s Audience and Approach
  10. 2. Kierkegaard on Creation and Christology, against Hegelianism
  11. 3. Karl Barth’s Stand against Idealism, Cultural Religion, and Nationalism
  12. 4. The Theological Implications of God’s Kinship in Time
  13. 5. Barth’s Appropriation of Kierkegaard
  14. 6. Engaging Secular Society
  15. 7. Beyond Immanence
  16. Conclusion
  17. Bibliography