Topic 10: Preaching Jesus Christ: Karl Barth and the Christian Story

10. PREACHING JESUS CHRIST: KARL BARTH AND THE CHRISTIAN STORY

Works by Barth

Barth, Karl. “The Necessity of Dogmatic Prolegomena.” In Church Dogmatics, edited by G. W. Bromiley and T. F. Torrance, Vol. I, The Doctrine of the Word of God, Part 1, § 2, section 1, pp. 25–36. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1975.

——— “The Judge Judged in Our Place.” In Church Dogmatics, edited by G. W. Bromiley and T. F. Torrance, Vol. IV, The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Part 1, § 59, section 2, pp. 211–283. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1956.

——— “The Royal Man.” In Church Dogmatics, edited by G. W. Bromiley and T. F. Torrance, Vol. IV, The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Part 2, § 64, section 3, pp. 154–264. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1958.

——— “The Light of Life.” In Church Dogmatics, edited by G. W. Bromiley and T. F. Torrance, Vol. IV, The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Part 3, first half, § 69, section 2, pp. 38–165. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1961.

Secondary Works on preaching Christ and the Christian Narrative

Frei, Hans. Theology and Narrative, ed. Hunsinger and Placher. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Thiemann, Ronald. Revelation and Theology. University of Notre Dame Press, 1985.

Goldberg, Michael. “God, Action, and Narrative: Which Narrative? Which Action? Which God?” Journal of Religion 68 (1988):39–56. This is a critique of Thiemann, Revelation and Theology.

Torrance, Thomas. Preaching Jesus Christ Today: The Gospel and Scientific Thinking. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1994.

Secondary Works on Barth

Jüngel, Eberhard. Karl Barth: A Theological Legacy, translated by Garrett E. Paul. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1986. See especially Chapter 4, “The Royal Man: A Christological Reflection on Human Dignity in Barth’s Theology.” pp. 127–138.

Hartwell, Herbert. The Theology of Karl Barth: An Introduction. London: G. Duckworth; Philadelphia: Westminster, 1964. xiv + 201 pp. This is a good introduction.

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Hunsinger, George. How to Read Karl Barth: The Shape of His Theology. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. xv + 298 pp. This is a more advanced text.

McCormack, Bruce L. Karl Barth’s Critically Realistic Dialectical Theology: Its Genesis and Development 1909–1936. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. xx + 499 pp. Revision and expansion of the author’s doctoral thesis, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1989.

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