The Knowledge of God and the Service of God According to the Teaching of the Reformation The Gifford Lectures Delivered in 1937 and 1938

Barth, Karl

ISBN 10: 1597524271 / ISBN 13: 9781597524278

Published by Wipf and Stock, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Knowledge of God and the Service of God According to the Teaching of the Reformation The Gifford Lectures Delivered in 1937 and 1938
• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1597524271
• ISBN 13: 9781597524278
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

These lectures on that teaching [of the Reformed church on natural theology] will not take the form of an independent outline, but will be connected with a 'document' of the Reformation. Further, taking into account the specifically Scottish character of the Gifford foundation, this document will be a document of the 'Scottish' Reformation . . . . I am letting John Knox and his friend speak in their 'Confessio Scotica' of 1560. This is not to take the form of an historical analysis of the Scottish Confession, but that of a theological paraphrase and elucidation of the document as it speaks to-day and as we to-day by a careful objective examination of its content can hear it speak.

About the Author

Karl Barth (1886-1968), the Swiss Reformed professor and pastor, was once described by Pope Pius XII as the most important theologian since Thomas Aquinas. As principal author of 'The Barmen Declaration', he was the intellectual leader of the German Confessing Church -- the Protestant group that resisted the Third Reich. Barth's teaching career spanned five decades. Removed from his post at Bonn by the Nazis in late 1934, Barth moved to Basel where he taught until 1962. Among Barth's many books, sermons, and essays are the 'Epistle to the Romans,' 'Humanity of God,' 'Evangelical Theology,' and 'Church Dogmatics.'