Karl Barth. Paul S. Chung
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Название: Karl Barth

Автор: Paul S. Chung

Издательство: Ingram

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isbn: 9781498270311

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СКАЧАТЬ but are social and universal. No wonder that Barth repeatedly relates the Revelation of John, chapter 21, to the proclaimed revelation of the new world: “Behold the tabernacle of God is with men! The Holy Spirit makes a new heaven and a new earth and, therefore, new men, new families, new relationships, new politics.”255 God makes a new politics. So God’s action is political. The unity between knowledge and interest can arrive in this discovery of the Bible when this political interest is brought explicitly to social consciousness and defined in accordance with it. Barth seeks in Bible just such an actual political orientation of human action as in the revolutionary situation of 1918. This is also a hermeneutical aspect for Barth that directs him to knowledge and understanding by putting together the newspaper and the Bible. This social-historical contemporaneity retains a fundamental significance for Barth’s hermeneutics regarding exegesis and his understanding of the Word of God. This contemporaneity will become manifest in his commentary on Romans. Barth argues for a conversion to the Bible from the inside out, from its own subject matter to what lies beyond.

      Later in his lecture on Schleiermacher, Barth recalled his relationship with Kutter and Ragaz: