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Ausgabe:

Dezember/2017

Spalte:

1371–1372

Kategorie:

Dogmen- und Theologiegeschichte

Autor/Hrsg.:

Viazovski, Yaroslav

Titel/Untertitel:

Image and Hope. John Calvin and Karl Barth on Body, Soul, and Life Everlasting.

Verlag:

Cambridge: James Clarke & Co. (Lutterworth) 2016. 284 S. Kart. £ 21,00. ISBN 978-0-227-17604-7.

Rezensent:

Joshua Kira

Image and Hope by Yaroslav Viazovski is given clear summary in its subheading, which reads: »John Calvin and Karl Barth on Body, Soul, and Life Everlasting.« The book is largely based on V.’s dissertation under supervisory guidance of Paul Helm at the University of Aberdeen. In line with his previous publication, V. explores the differences between Calvin and Barth, as well as the manners in which the latter relied upon the former. His book attempts to give exposition to a controversial and frequently underplayed aspect of Barthian theology, which is the theologian’s understanding of the body’s relation to the soul and to the afterlife. V., in many ways, sees Barth’s »holism« (10) as a sufficient remedy to some of the excesses of Calvin, while critical of the ...


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