Karl Barth and the Resurrection of the Flesh

The Loss of the Body in Participatory Eschatology

von Nathan Hitchcock

226 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A challenging critique of Karl Barth's theology of the resurrection of the flesh, highlighting the problems in the idea of a participatory eschatology.Early Christian writers preferred to speak of the coming resurrection in the most bodily way possible: the resurrection of the flesh. Twentieth-century theologian Karl Barth took the same avenue, daring to speak of humans' eternal life in rather striking corporeal terms. In this study, Nathan Hitchcock pulls together Barth's doctrine of the resurrection of the flesh, anticipating what the great thinker might have said more systematically in volume V of his 'Church Dogmatics'. Provocatively, Hitchcock goes on to argue that Barth's description of the resurrection - as eternalization, as manifestation, as incorporation - bears much in common with some unlikely programs and, contrary to its intention, jeopardizes the very contours of human life it hopes to preserve. In addition to contributing to Barth studies, this book offers a sober warning to theologians pursuing eschatology through notions of participation.

• Reihe: James Clarke and Co Ltd
• ISBN: 9780227174104
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.07.2013
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd