{"title":"Response to Part III","authors":"Mun’im Sirry","doi":"10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823284603.003.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823284603.003.0015","url":null,"abstract":"Mun’im Sirry responds to the essays in chapters 7 and 8 by highlighting difference more than commonality: difference between Barth and Islamic thinking, differences of scholarly interpretation of Barth, and difference within Barth’s own theological understanding. With appreciation for the work of Ralston and Richardson, Sirry nudges the conversation toward deeper attention to real differences between religious traditions, suggesting that such difference “should not be viewed as a source of misguidance but rather, perhaps, the consequence of the divine merciful radiance.”","PeriodicalId":446621,"journal":{"name":"Karl Barth and Comparative Theology","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121483167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Response to Part II","authors":"Paul F. Knitter","doi":"10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823284603.003.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823284603.003.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Paul Knitter responds to the two essays on Barth and Buddhism in chapters 4 and 5 from his own unique perspective as a “double belonger,” one who is nurtured by and engages in both Christian and Buddhist practices. From that vantage point, and drawing from decades of theological scholarship in religious pluralism, Knitter critically engages Lai and Farwell, suggesting in the end that all efforts in comparative theology with Barth must acknowledge more honestly the inherent dualism and Christomonism in his approach.","PeriodicalId":446621,"journal":{"name":"Karl Barth and Comparative Theology","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132783456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Barth and Universal Salvation","authors":"Pan-chiu Lai","doi":"10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823284603.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823284603.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Pan-chiu Lai takes up the question of universal salvation in Barth, in conversation particularly with Chinese Buddhism, which recognizes a variety of entrances or “dharma-gates” to salvation. After describing several aspects of the universalism of this Mahayana tradition, Lai turns to Barth and notes parallels in his own theology, including the provocative suggestion that what some scholars deem an inconsistency or change in Barth’s position over time may actually be an example of the Buddhist practice of “skillful means,” a change in teaching method in order to address a different concern. Finally, in considering Barth’s doctrine of election, Lai suggests that “Barth’s universalism is more fundamental to his own position, while his denial of universalism is merely his own skillful means which is made for the benefit of his audience.” Even so, from a Mahayana perspective Lai offers specific critiques of Barth’s “implicit universalism.”","PeriodicalId":446621,"journal":{"name":"Karl Barth and Comparative Theology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129347725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Humanity and Destiny:","authors":"Tim Hartman","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvk3gpgr.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvk3gpgr.18","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":446621,"journal":{"name":"Karl Barth and Comparative Theology","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128045777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Response to Part I","authors":"P. Ochs","doi":"10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823284603.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823284603.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"In response to chapters 1 and 2, Jewish scholar Peter Ochs offers comparative theology “raised to the ninth degree.” In nine (sometimes subdivided) moves, he offers summaries of Boesel and Rashkover’s work, offers his own constructive observations informed by “scriptural theology,” and then compares the two essays with each other. Finally, he rereads them in light of his own model of scriptural theology.","PeriodicalId":446621,"journal":{"name":"Karl Barth and Comparative Theology","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117192621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"3 Barth’s Theology of Religion and Dōgen’s Nondualism","authors":"James W. Farwell","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvk3gpgr.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvk3gpgr.8","url":null,"abstract":"James Farwell begins by challenging the now-common classification of Barth’s theology of religions as “exclusivism,” calling his position rather a “kerygmatically generated inverse pluralism.” Arguing that Barth’s project is a rejection of any theology of religions, Farwell goes on to engage Barth as a partner in comparative theology, particularly in conversation with the Zen teacher Dōgen, who founded the Soto Zen school of Japanese Buddhism. Despite Barth’s own quick rejection of Zen Buddhism as a religion that seeks salvation in human striving, Farwell finds in Dōgen a critique of religion very similar to Barth’s own. That surprising convergence is itself a worthwhile fruit of comparative theological study. Coupled with this critique, however, Dōgen offers an illuminating nondualism that makes no ultimate distinction between practice and realization, between the path and the goal of “salvation.” This offers a new insight that may helpfully temper Barth’s own emphasis on God’s revealing Word as over against human effort.","PeriodicalId":446621,"journal":{"name":"Karl Barth and Comparative Theology","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131987276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Do Not Grieve”:","authors":"John N. Sheveland","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvk3gpgr.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvk3gpgr.15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":446621,"journal":{"name":"Karl Barth and Comparative Theology","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122751265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Response to Part IV","authors":"Anantanand Rambachan","doi":"10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823284603.003.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823284603.003.0016","url":null,"abstract":"Advaita scholar Anantanand Rambachan offers comments on the essays of Pugliese and Sheveland, extending and deepening the conversation between Barth and these particular thinkers. He commends both Pugliese and Sheveland for their work so far and offers each of them a particular challenge to think further about an implication of their comparative work.","PeriodicalId":446621,"journal":{"name":"Karl Barth and Comparative Theology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114250029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analogies across Faiths","authors":"Joshua Ralston","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823284603.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823284603.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Joshua Ralston frankly acknowledges Barth’s dismissive comments about Islam and the possibility of Muslim-Christian dialogue. Despite these comments, Ralston seeks to engage Barth as a conversation partner in comparative theological work by placing his dialectical understanding of revelation as the veiling and unveiling of God in conversation with Ash’arite Sunni thinking about God and revelation, specifically Abu Hamid al-Ghazali’s Al-Maqsad al-Asna (The 99 Beautiful Names of God). Both theologians affirm the particularity of revelation that comes only from God, and both reject the possibilities of any analogy of being (analogia entis). For both, to speak rightly about God is emphatically to speak “after revelation”—so analogy and reason may be used, but only in light of what God has first revealed (in Jesus Christ or in the Qur’an).","PeriodicalId":446621,"journal":{"name":"Karl Barth and Comparative Theology","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125237781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}