Karl Barth eBook

This two-book collection of works is a must-have for Karl Barth scholars! D. Stephen Long's Saving Karl Barth: Hans Urs von Balthasar's Preoccupation (2014) challenges recent rejections of Hans Urs von Balthasar's groundbreaking study of Karl Barth's theology and offers a substantial defense of Balthasar's theological preoccupation with Barth's thought and explores the friendship that developed between Balthasar and Barth. Aaron T. Smith's A Theology of the Third Article: Karl Barth and the Spirit of the Word (2014) reveals that toward the end of his career, Karl Barth made the provocative statement that perhaps what Schleiermacher was up to was a "e;theology of the third article"e; and that he anticipated in the future that a true third-article theology would appear. Many interpreters, of course, took that to indicate not only a change in Barth's perception of Schleiermacher but also as a self-referential critique. The author investigates this claim, contesting the standard interpretations, and argues for a Barthian pneumatology-a doctrine of the Holy Spirit grounded in the scriptural witness and connected to the vital Christological and dialectical theology found in Barth's project. Now available as an exclusive eBook!