At the “Zero-Point” of Faith: The Clash of Old Man and New in the Römerbrief and Barth’s Later Doctrine of Sanctification
Year: 2022
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: This article considers the light shed by Barth’s 1922 Römerbrief upon his doctrine of sanctification in Church Dogmatics IV/2. Barth’s description of the radical diastasis between the old man and the new in 1922 bears striking similarity to his treatment of conversion in 1955, each replete with metaphors of warfare. In both, Barth’s categorical treatment of old man and new throws every positive descriptor of the Christian life into question. In each case, however, this diastasis is accompanied by Barth’s insistence that these two determinations are ordered irreversibly toward the new. This article argues that these two themes - diastasis and ordering - have conflicting consequences for Christian ethics. Whereas the former tends to void the Christian life of any concrete marks, the latter supplies it with material norms.
Source: De Gruyter eBooks
Author: Cambria Janae Kaltwasser
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4229454032