Browsing HTS Volume 63, Number 4 (2007) by Issue Date

Browsing HTS Volume 63, Number 4 (2007) by Issue Date

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  • "God and the gods": Faith and human-made idols in the theology of Karl Barth 
    Van Wyk, I.W.C. (Ignatius William Charles) (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007)
    The First Commandment played an important role in the theology of Karl Barth. His personal obedience to this commandment contributed to his realization that one cannot be comfortable with the Liberal theology of the ...
  • "The Christian in society" : reading Barth's Tambach lecture (1919) in its German context 
    Kritzinger, J.N.J. (Johannes Nicolaas Jacobus), 1950- (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007)
    This article analyses Karl Barth’s 1919 Tambach lecture on “The Christian in society” in the context of post World War I Europe. After describing Barth’s early life and his move away from liberal theology, the five sections ...
  • On reading Karl Barth in South Africa today : Karl Barth as public theologian? 
    Laubscher, Martin (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007)
    This article investigates the specific nature by which Karl Barth could be considered as a public theologian in post-apartheid South Africa. The aim is to enrich the debate in the current field of public theology in ...
  • Some Barthian perspectives on the present science-religion debate : what is the place of "natural theology" today? 
    Du Toit, Cornel W. (Cornelius Willem), 1953- (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007)
    As an example of the context-relatedness of Barth’s work, this article compares his crisis theology with Heidegger’s philosophy of Being. Further examples are Barth’s reaction to the modernism of his time, with its accent ...
  • "Was sollen wir tun?" Theological reflections on aspects of the ethics of Karl Barth 
    Van Wyk, J.H. (Amie) (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007)
    The author investigates some aspects of the ethics of the wellknown Swiss theologian Karl Barth. The article focuses on to the coherence between dogmatics and ethics, aspects of theocentricity and christocentricty, followed ...
  • Doing classical theology in context 
    Neven, Gerrit Willem (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007)
    This article is about doing classical theology in context. The weight of my argument is that classical text of Karl Barth’s theology is great intellectual text means: being addressed by this text in the context in which ...
  • Tambach remixed : "Christians in South African society" 
    Senokoane, B.B. (Tumi); Kritzinger, J.N.J. (Johannes Nicolaas Jacobus), 1950- (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007)
    This article flows from the previous one, which analysed Karl Barth’s Tambach lecture in its original German context. It uses the musical metaphor of “remixing” to describe the recontextualising of Barth’s Tambach approach ...
  • Karl Barth's role in church and politics from 1930 to 1935 
    Groenewald, Andre Johannes (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007-11)
    Karl Barth saw in natural theology a threat to the church of Christ. He was convinced that the so-called "German Christians" under the influence of the National Socialist Party practised natural theology. He advocated the ...
  • The historical-hermeneutical prelude to the legacy of Karl Barth 
    Pelser, G.M.M. (Gerhardus Marthinus Maritz); Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.) (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007-11)
    The article aims to explain Karl Barth's hermeneutical legacy against the background of the influence of the Enlightenment in philosophy and theology during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It consists of a discussion ...
  • Karl Barth as a homilist 
    Dreyer, T.F.J. (Theunis Frederik Jacobus), 1946- (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007-11)
    Any tribute to Karl Barth as the most important theologian of the 20th century must show an awareness of the many facets of his work. He will long be remembered for his monumental contribution to church dogmatics. The ...
  • Karl Barth's epistemology : a critical appraisal 
    Veldsman, D.P. (Daniel Petrus), 1959- (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007-11)
    Can the great 20th century systematic theologian Karl Barth justify the fundamental beliefs he holds regarding the priority of God's revelation in Jesus Christ as put forward in his impressive and comprehensive Kirchliche ...
  • Karl Barth's male-female order : a kingpin of dogmatic disparity 
    Dreyer, Yolanda (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007-11)
    Karl Barth's gender perspective is often analysed with reference to his so-called "theoethics" or "creational theology". This perspective perpetuates an asymmetry in gender relations that was prevalent in Biblical times, ...
  • Karl Barth's definition of church in politics and culture : growth points for the church in South Africa 
    Bentley, Wessel (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007-11)
    The article describes briefly Karl Barth's views on church, its role in politics and how it relates to culture. This is done by identifying the way in which the church participates in the social realm through its relationship ...
  • Karl Barth's male-female order as asymmetrical theoethics 
    Dreyer, Yolanda (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007-11)
    This article is to argues that Karl Barth's revelation-based theology represents male bias entrapped within patriarchal Christian tradition. The rigid way of using the revelation-based model in exegesis and theology goes ...
  • Who is the sinner? The view of Karl Barth 
    Van Zyl, F.J. (Francois Jacobus) (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007-11)
    This article focuses on Karl Barth's view of the human being as sinner. In accordance with his christological approach to all theological matters, the article aims to argue that Barth describes the image and character of ...
  • Historical consciousness and existential awareness in Karl Barth's hermeneutics 
    Pelser, G.M.M. (Gerhardus Marthinus Maritz); Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.) (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007-11)
    Karl Barth's hermeneutic legacy prolonged Western Christian tradition, especially influenced by Hegelian philosophy of history. This led to Barth's "theological exegesis" instead of a historic-critical exegesis. In a ...
  • Interpreting the theology of Barth in light of Nietzsche's dictum "God is dead" 
    Groenewald, Andre Johannes (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007-12)
    Karl Barth responded with his theology to Nietzsche’s dictum “God is dead” by stating that God is the living God. God does not need the human race to exist. God reveals God self to humankind whenever God wills. Barth ...
  • Karl Barth’s understanding of mission : the Church in relationship 
    Bentley, Wessel (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2009)
    As the Church is moving towards its 21st century of existence, it is confronted by challenges it has never known before. This changing world demands self-reflection within the Church. It has to consider its place, identity ...