The Ordering of the Christian Mind: Karl Barth and Theological Rationality
Martin Westerholm, "The Ordering of the Christian Mind: Karl Barth and Theological Rationality"
English | ISBN: 0198753128 | 2016 | 240 pages | PDF | 18 MB
English | ISBN: 0198753128 | 2016 | 240 pages | PDF | 18 MB
The adequacy of Karl Barth's conception of theological reasoning is a decisive point of contention in assessments of the legacy and potential of twentieth-century theology. Barth's work is a formative point from which other twentieth-century figures take their orientation; later thinkers have most often taken their leave from his work by suggesting that it reflects an underdeveloped conception of the activities of human reason. The regularity with which other thinkers orient themselves in relation to Barth by pointing to a positivism, faith subjectivism, or fideism in his work elevates the question of theological reasoning to a decisive point in the comprehension of twentieth-century theology.
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