Karl Barth. Paul S. Chung
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Название: Karl Barth

Автор: Paul S. Chung

Издательство: Ingram

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СКАЧАТЬ message in the past as a child of his time. Barth’s concern about his own time leads him to consider the doctrine of inspiration more important than the historical-critical method for the task of understanding. Barth’s hermeneutic in both Romans commentaries is to see through the historical to the spirit of the Bible. However, his intent was not to become pneumatic or a declared enemy of historical criticism by rejection of it (R II:xiii). Rather, Barth appears as a social-critical theologian beyond the historical critics. Therefore, we can conclude that Barth does not reject the rightful place of the historical-critical method in biblical investigation.20

      Barth charged his contemporaries with giving up the task of a serious, respectful understanding and explanation of Paul’s Romans for his time, out of respect for history over and against tradition. Historical critics approached the biblical texts on the basis of Ernst Troeltsch’s triadic formulation: (a) the principle of criticism, (b) the principle of analogy, and (c) the principle of correlation. Under the presupposition that God is God, Barth does not reject this triadic principle; rather he radicalizes it in light of the theological subject matter. For Barth, to see through the historical to the spirit of the Bible is not merely to focus on Paul himself, but it is a task of understanding God as theological Sache. The spirit of this Sache inspires; thus God speaks to us even in the midst of our sociopolitical upheaval. The kingdom of God as theological subject matter is the in-breaking reality of God into our time. To see through our time to God’s in-breaking reality is a more critical and radical approach than the historical-critical method.

      According to Marquardt, a social and political problem is supposed to be the criterion for the meaning of historical criticism in view of Barth’s principle of understanding. The primacy of reality can be seen as the key concept in his hermeneutics. Recognizing the primacy of the text’s reality before the exegetical method of historical criticism, Barth radicalized the historical-critical method by placing it second to the Bible’s addressing sociohistorical and political concerns. This view is, for Barth, an exegetical discipline—in other words, a result of radical critical reflection rather than a postcritical second naiveté in the sense of Heidegger or Jüngel.