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Hastening That Waits

Karl Barth's Ethics

by Nigel Biggar (chaplain And Fellow, Chaplain And Fellow, Oriel College, Oxford)

  • Hardback
  • 202 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.7 cm

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This book offers a fresh and up-to-date account of the ethical thought of one of the twentieth century's greatest theologians: Karl Barth. In it, the author seeks to recover Barth's ethics from some widespread misunderstandings, and also presents a picture of it as a whole. Drawing on recently published sources, Dr Biggar construes the ethics of the Church Dogmatics as it might have been had Barth lived to complete it. However, The Hastening that Waits is more than apology and description. For it recommends to contemporary Christian ethics the theological rigour with which Barth expounds the good life in terms of the living presence of God-in-Christ to his creatures; his conception of right human action as that which is able to hasten in the service of humanity precisely by waiting prayerfully upon God; and his discriminate openness to moral wisdom outside the Christian church. Among particular topics treated are: the concept of human freedom and of created moral order; moral norms and their relation to individual vocation; the relative ethical roles of the Bible, the Church, philosophy, and empirical science; moral character and its formation; and the problem of war.
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  • Author

    Nigel Biggar (chaplain And Fellow, Chaplain And Fellow, Oriel College, Oxford)

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    March 1993

  • Weight

    418g

  • Page Count

    202

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780198264576

  • ISBN-10

    0198264577

  • Eden Code

    1006630

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