Description
The theology of Karl Barth has often been a productive dialogue partner for evangelical theology, but for too long the dialogue has been dominated by questions of orthodoxy. Karl Barth and the Future of Evangelical Theology contributes to the conversation through a creative reconfiguration of both partners in the conversation, neither of whom can be rightly understood as preservers of Protestant orthodoxy. Rather, American evangelicalism is identified with the revivalist forms of Protestantism that arose in the post-Reformation era, while Barth is revisited as a theologian attuned both to divine and human agency. In the ensuing conversation, questions of orthodoxy are not eliminated but subordinated to a concern for the life of God and God’s people. By offering an alternative to the dominant constraints, this book opens up new avenues for fruitful conversation on Barth and the future of evangelical theology.
About the Author
Christian T. Collins Winn is Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology and Chair of the Biblical and Theological Studies Department at Bethel University, St Paul, Minnesota, and the author of Jesus Is Victor!: The Significance of the Blumhardts for the Theology of Karl Barth.
John L. Drury is Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at Indiana Wesleyan University and an ordained minister in the Wesleyan Church. He is author of The Resurrected God: Karl Barth’s Trinitarian Theology of Easter.
Contents
Foreword by William J. Abraham
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Christian T. Collins Winn and John L. Drury
Abbreviations
Part I: Reframing the Conversation
1. Karl Barth and Evangelicalism: The Varieties of a Sibling Rivalry
Donald W. Dayton
2. Karl Barth and Pietism
Eberhard Busch
3. Bringing an Elephant and a Whale into Conversation: Karl Barth and Pietism
Kimlyn J. Bender
Part II: Reconceiving Christian Experience and Practice
4. Christ in Us: The Hope of Glory or the Sentimentality of a “Bohemian Private Enterprise”? Barth, Pietists, and Pentecostals
Terry L. Cross
5. Karl Barth on Fellowship with Jesus Christ: The Calling of the Christian
James Nelson
6. Barth and Testimony
John L. Drury
7. Jesus’s Earthly Father as Protector and Example for the Church: How Karl Barth’s Theology Challenges the Contemporary Evangelical Masculinist Movement
Stina Busman Jost
8. “Thy Kingdom Come!” Karl Barth and the Promise of a Prophetic Evangelical Church
Christian T. Collins Winn and Peter Goodwin Heltzel
Part III: Renewing Christian Doctrine
9. “Speak, for Your Servant Is Listening”: Barth, Prayer, and Theological Method
Joel D. Lawrence
10. Better News Hath No Evangelical than This: Barth, Election, and the Recovery of the Gospel from Evangelicalism’s Territorial Disputes
Chris Boesel
11. God Says What the Text Says: Another Look at Karl Barth’s View of Scripture
Frank D. Macchia
12. The Church as “Witness”: Karl Barth and the Missional Church
Kyle A. Roberts
13. Jesus Christ as the One and Only Sacrament
Kurt Anders Richardson
14. Eschatology from Basel to Azusa Street: The Voices of Karl Barth and Pentecostalism in Dialogue
Peter Althouse
Contributors
Index
Endorsements and Reviews
Evangelical orthodoxy is regenerated in this book by a long-awaited develop ment: an orthopraxic and orthopathic interpretation of the legacy of Karl Barth. This constructive trajectory derives especially from a ferment of contemporary pietist, Wesleyan, and Pentecostal interfaces with what has been predominantly a Reformed playground.
Amos Yong, Professor of Theology & Mission, Fuller Seminary, California
In this outstanding collection of essays, the contours of a more hopeful and thoroughly theological approach to the evangelical tradition come clearly into view. This vision provides yet another demonstration of the rehabilitation of Karl Barth among evangelicals and the vibrancy of his thought for the future of evangelical theology and witness.
John R. Franke, Professor of Missional Theology, Yellowstone Theological Institute, Minnesota
