Doxological Theology

Karl Barth on Divine Providence, Evil, and the Angels

Christopher C. Green

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9780567196514
• eBook ISBN: 9780567217752
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Theology

In 1949, Karl Barth confidently upholds a high doctrine of divine providence, main-taining God's control of every event in history. His argument is at once cheerful, but also defiant in the face of a Europe that is war-weary and doubtful of the full sovereignty of God. Barth's movement to praise God shows his affin-ity for the Reformed theological tradition. While Barth often distances himself from his Calvinist predecessors in important ways, he sees his own view of providence to be a positive reworking of the Reformed position in order to maintain what he un-derstands as its most important insights: the praiseworthiness of the God of provi-dence and the doxology of the creature. Doxological Theology investigates how the theologian, in response to the praiseworthy God of the Reformed tradition, is ex-pected to pray his or her way through the doctrine of providence.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Karl Barth’s “Radical Correction” of the Protestant Orthodox Doctrine in III/3
• 3 §49.1, The Divine Preserving
• 4 §49.2, The Divine Accompanying
• 5 §49.3, The Divine Ruling
• 6 §49.4, The Christian Under the Universal Lordship of God the Father
• 7 §50, God and Nothingness
• 8 §51, The Kingdom of Heaven, the Ambassadors of God, and their Opponents
• 9 Conclusion: A Doxological Theology
• Bibliography
• Index of Subjects
• Index of Names