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Ausgabe:

Dezember/2023

Spalte:

1229-1231

Kategorie:

Dogmen- und Theologiegeschichte

Autor/Hrsg.:

Torrance, Alan J., and Andrew B. Torrance

Titel/Untertitel:

Beyond Immanence. The Theological Vision of Kierkegaard and Barth.

Verlag:

Grand Rapids u. a.: Wm. B. Eerdmans 2023. 407 S. = Kierkegaard as a Christian Thinker. Geb. US$ 49,99. ISBN 9780802868039.

Rezensent:

George Pattison

The central argument of Beyond Immanence is that Kierkegaard and Barth had a shared theological vision. A key element of this shared vision is that both resisted contemporary attempts to understand and to explain Christianity within an exclusively immanentist horizon that effaced the possibility of human beings being addressed from a reality beyond that of their worldly being and concerns.

Those familiar with Barth’s acknowledgement of the influence of Kierkegaard on the second edition of his commentary on Romans will not be surprised by this, not least because of the role he gives to Kierkegaard’s emphasis on the »infinite qualitative difference« between the divine and the human. However, those also familiar with Barth’s later comments about the need to move ...


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