Ethics. Karl Barth

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       KARL BARTH

       ETHICS

      Edited by

      DIETRICH BRAUN

      Translated by

      GEOFFREY W. BROMILEY

      WIPF & STOCK • Eugene, Oregon

      Wipf and Stock Publishers

      199 W 8th Ave, Suite 3

      Eugene, OR 97401

      Ethics

      By Barth, Karl and Braun, Dietrich

      Copyright©1981 Theologischer Verlag Zurich

      ISBN 13: 978-1-62564-375-9

      EISBN 13: 978-1-4982-7073-1

      Publication date 11/1/2013

      Previously published by Seabury Press, 1981

      © of the German original version

      Theologischer Verlag Zürich

       Contents

       Translator’s Preface

       Editor’s Preface

       Abbreviations

       ETHICS I 1928

       Introduction

       §1Ethics and Dogmatics

       §4The Revelation of the Command

       §5The Command as the Command of God

       §7The Command of Life

       §9Order

       §10Faith

       ETHICS II 1928/1929

       Chapter Three The Command of God the Reconciler

       §11The Command of Law

       §12Authority

       §13Humility

       §14Love

       Chapter Four The Command of God the Redeemer

       §15The Command of Promise

       §16Conscience

       §17Gratitude

       §18Hope

       Appendix Theses on Church and State

       Indexes

       IScripture References

       IINames

       IIISubjects

       Translator’s Preface

      Karl Barth would never publish in his lifetime the lectures on ethics which the editors of the Swiss Gesamtausgabe have now presented in two volumes that are condensed into one in this translation. Nevertheless the lectures are of considerable interest for all who have a concern for theology in general and the theology of Barth in particular. There are three reasons why this is so.

      First, they form an essential link in the development of Barth’s own thinking as an ethicist. When he delivered them, Barth was at a crucial point in the movement from earlier ethical concerns to the larger theological conception which underlies the ethical chapters in the Church Dogmatics. As he understood it, dogmatic theology included ethics within its compass. Hence the demand arose for a rethinking of ethical foundations. Yet Barth retained a highly practical ethical interest and with his special concern to avoid legalism and yet to maintain a structured divine command he saw himself committed to an exploration of the implications of his dogmatics for actual Christian conduct both personal and social.

      Second, the lectures clearly came to serve as a first draft of the ethical section of the Church Dogmatics. Already the outline is clear: an introductory chapter (cf. Church Dogmatics II, 2), then successive chapters on the command of God the Creator (cf. III, 4), God the Reconciler (cf. IV, 4 Fragment and the unfinished and unrevised Christian Life), and God the Redeemer (cf. the chapter projected for V). When the lectures are compared in detail with the available material in Church Dogmatics,

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