Research Catalog

Title

Revelatory positivism? : Barth's earliest theology and the Marburg school / Simon Fisher.

Author

Fisher, Simon, 1952-

Publication

Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.

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Details

Description

xv, 348 pages; 23 cm

Series Statement

Oxford theological monographs

Uniform Title

Oxford theological monographs

Subject

• Barth, Karl, 1886-1968
• Barth, Karl, 1886-1968
• Marburg School
• Marburg school of philosophy
• Theologie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Contents

Marburg neo-Kantianism. The neo-Kantian movement ; Cohen's neo-Kantian philosophy ; Extending the system -- The place of religion. Religion within the limits of humanity ; The ethical ideal and the God of Abraham ; Ecstatic reason and the ambiguities of religious experience ; The heart's desire ; The revelation at Sinai -- Wilhelm Herrmann : theological epistemology and the dualism of faith. Reality ; Law, philosophy, and work ; life and experience ; Revelation ; The historic present ; Thoughts of faith and the task of dogmatics -- Philosophy, metaphysics, and the nature of religion according to Barth. The primacy of experience ; Barth and Marburg neo-Kantianism ; Barth's critique of metaphysics in theology -- Revelation, culture, and dialectic : elements of a theory of religion. Hiistory and Christian experience ; Religionsphilosophie : revelation and culture ; Dialectic -- Revelatory positivism : conclusions and clarifications. Bonhoeffer's indictiment ; Barth on Schleiermacher's 'positivism' ; Appealing to the given : losses and gains ; Alternatives to revelatory positivism -- Appendices. Books in Barth's private library ; Continuities and discontinuities in Barth's dialectic ; Chapter analysis of a fragment of Religionsphilosophie.

ISBN

• 0198267258
• 9780198267256

LCCN

87022124

OCLC

• ocm16582101
• 16582101
• SCSB-1703693

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library