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Item Details
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THE HASTENING THAT WAITS
KARL BARTH'S ETHICS |
| By: |
Nigel Biggar |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£102.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198264577 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198264576 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
11 March, 1993 |
| Series: |
Oxford Studies in Theological Ethics |
| Pages: |
202 |
| Description: |
A study of the ethical thought of one of the 20th century's prominent theologians, covering a range of current issues in Christian ethics: the relative roles of the Bible, the church and philosophy, the formation of moral character and the connection between religious faith and moral virtue. |
| Synopsis: |
This book offers a fresh and up-to-date account of the ethical thought of one of the twentieth century's greatest theologians: Karl Barth. In it, the author seeks to recover Barth's ethics from some widespread misunderstandings, and also presents a picture of it as a whole. Drawing on recently published sources, Dr Biggar construes the ethics of the Church Dogmatics as it might have been had Barth lived to complete it. However, The Hastening that Waits is more than apology and description. For it recommends to contemporary Christian ethics the theological rigour with which Barth expounds the good life in terms of the living presence of God-in-Christ to his creatures; his conception of right human action as that which is able to hasten in the service of humanity precisely by waiting prayerfully upon God; and his discriminate openness to moral wisdom outside the Christian church. Among particular topics treated are: the concept of human freedom and of created moral order; moral norms and their relation to individual vocation; the relative ethical roles of the Bible, the Church, philosophy, and empirical science; moral character and its formation; and the problem of war. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Clarendon Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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