of Barth’s theology will be scrutinized. Attention will be given to Barth’s view of democracy and socialism. In conclusion, I will discuss Barth’s unfinished project about the mystery of God and religious pluralism. The ecumenical and global relevance of Barth will be brought to the fore in a discussion of his ecumenical legacy, the theocentric direction of his theology, and his contribution toward a Christian perspective on religious pluralism. At this juncture my focus is given to Barth’s world-affirming theology in relation to religious pluralism from the perspective of Pure Land Buddhism in reference to Takizawa and Asian minjung theology.
1. Barth, Evangelical Theology, 164–65. Cf. CD I/2, § 64.2. “The Dogmatic Method.”
2. Jüngel, Karl Barth: A Theological Legacy, 54.
3. Balthasar, Theology of Karl Barth, 79–80.
4. Torrance, Karl Barth: Early Theology, 1910–1931, 134. Cf. Barth, How I Changed My Mind, 42–44.
5 Frei, “Doctrine of Revelation,” 194. Cf. McCormack, Critically Realistic, 4.
6. Jüngel, “Von der Dialektik zur Analogie,” in Jüngel, Barth-Studien, 128.
7. Jüngel, “Die theologische Anfänge: Beobachtungen,” in ibid., 47.
8. Frei, Types of Christian Theology, 160.
9. See Spieckermann, Gotteserkenntnis: Ein Beitrag zur Grundfrage der neuen Theologie Karl Barths.
10. Beintker, Dialektik in der ‘dialektischen Theologie’ Karl Barths, 261–62. Cf. McCormack, Critically Realistic, 10.
11. McCormack, Critically Realistic, 18.
12. We also take note of the coexistence of dialectic and analogy in Eberhard Mechels’s writing in 1974; cf. Mechels, Analogie bei Erich Przywara und Karl Barth.
13. Cf. Marquardt, Christ in der Gesellschaft.
14. Marquardt, Theologie und Sozialismus, 208–9.
15. Barth, Humanity of God, 40–41.
16. Barth, Christian Life.
17. Cf. CD I/2:50; II/1. § 31. 3; CD IV/3.2 § 71. 4. 6.
18. See “Brechen und Bauen: Diskussion mit Prof. Karl Barth am 5 August 1947.” In Barth “Der Götze wackelt,” 112. Cf. McCormack, Critically Realistic, 452.
19. Klappert, Versöhung und Befreiung, 330.
20. Barth’s letter to Thurneysen on January 1, 1916. In B-Th I, 119–22, 121. See also Smart, Revolutionary Theology, 36.
21. Jüngel, “Die theologischen Anfänge: Beobachtungen,” in Jüngel, Barth-Studien, 98.
22. Marquardt, “Exegese und Dogmatik in Karl Barths Theologie,” 381–406.
23. Ibid., 396–97.
24. Marquardt, Theologie und Sozialismus, 291; cf. Gorringe, Karl Barth: Against Hegemony, 16.
25. Hunsinger, Karl Barth and Radical Politics, 58.
26. Dannemann, Theologie und Politik, 19–20.
27. Hunsinger, Karl Barth and Radical Politics, 181.
28. Ibid., 191.
29. “The fact that not only sheds new light on, but materially changes, all things and everything in all things is the fact that God is” (CD II/1:258).
30. Hunsinger, Karl Barth and Radical Politics, 225.
31. Gorringe, Karl Barth: Against Hegemony, 13.
32. Barth, Protestant Theology in the Nineteenth Century, 58.
33. Scholder, Churches and the Third Reich, 45.
34. Sauter, “Soziologische oder Politische Barth-Interpretation?” 176–77.
35. Jüngel, Karl Barth: A Theological Legacy, 14.
36. Wagner, “Theologische Gleichschaltung: Zur Christologie bei Barth,” 41; cf. Jüngel, Karl Barth: A Theological Legacy, 139.
37. Pannenberg, Systematic Theology 2:477–78.
38. Jüngel, Karl Barth: A Theological Legacy, 14.
39. Ibid.
40. Barth, Briefe 1916–1968, 404.
41. Jüngel, Karl Barth-Studien, 27.
42. McCormack, Critically Realistic, 80, 88, 173, 175, 177, 184, 194.
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