{"title":"Comparative Theology, Comparative Wisdom, and Covenantal Logic","authors":"R. Rashkover","doi":"10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823284603.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823284603.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Rashkover explores the encounter between Frank Clooney’s approach to comparative theology and Barth’s confessional theology with an eye to their implications for Jewish-Christian relations. Building on her work in Freedom and Law: A Jewish-Christian Apologetics, she offers appreciation for Barth’s confessional approach, which in theory permits the possibility of revelatory encounter beyond the Christian community because of God’s freedom coupled with the lawful limit of that freedom. However, she argues, Barth’s critical theology needs a “covenantal repair,” a theological supplement that pays closer attention to the positive role of sanctification through the community’s living apprehension of the Word in time. This “repair” is needed not only for Christians, but for Christian-Jewish comparative exchange, so that both communities can describe how a claim about God’s revelation makes sense in divine-human conversation. She finds resources for this repair in the work of Robert Jenson, with its analysis of the “covenantal character of the Word.” She concludes that this covenantal logic of scripture “renders both Judaism and Christianity viable participants in the adventure of Clooney’s comparative learning.”","PeriodicalId":446621,"journal":{"name":"Karl Barth and Comparative Theology","volume":"6 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":"130193875","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 V","authors":"Nimi Wariboko","doi":"10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823284603.003.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823284603.003.0017","url":null,"abstract":"Nimi Wariboko affirms Ezigbo and Hartman for their pioneering efforts in drawing Barth into conversation with African religious traditions, even as he cautions against their emphasis on common ground rather than genuine difference. He concludes with a question that ought to occupy all scholars engaged in comparative work between such different traditions: how to compare text-based discourse with “fragments of social life”?","PeriodicalId":446621,"journal":{"name":"Karl Barth and Comparative Theology","volume":"356 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":"122802685","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":"Faith as Immunity to History?","authors":"Chris Boesel","doi":"10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823284603.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823284603.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Reading Barth in conversation with three different post-Holocaust Jewish theologians on the question of God’s relationship to history, Boesel comes to a new appreciation for the diversity within the Jewish tradition itself. This leads him to pose the important question “If one is to rethink Christian faith and theology in response to engagement with the Jewish ‘other,’ which Jewish ‘other’?” He challenges all theologians engaged in comparative work to consider whether a predisposition to seek common ground restricts which “others” we engage. He goes on to reconsider his original critical reading of Barth, recognizing that Barth’s own theology “appears to move with an inter-religious freedom that can be appropriated as responsive to the diversity of intra-Jewish difference itself” because of its own emphasis on the radical judgment of God that stands over every human religious claim. Boesel ends by acknowledging the problem of supersessionism that continues to haunt Barth’s theology.","PeriodicalId":446621,"journal":{"name":"Karl Barth and Comparative Theology","volume":"02 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":"128239318","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":"10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823284603.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/FORDHAM/9780823284603.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"John Sheveland sets the theme of reconciliation in Barth’s Church Dogmatics 3, no. 2 and 4, no. 1 in conversation with Vedanta Desika’s discussion of Bhagavad Gita 18:66 and its call to take refuge in Narayana alone. In both cases, the futility of the human condition is real, but secondary to the power of divine salvation. Human beings thus live in a paradoxical situation of having been reconciled, yet living much of the time as if that were not so. Sheveland concludes his essay with “pastoral gleanings,” drawing out practical constructive implications from this comparative encounter.","PeriodicalId":446621,"journal":{"name":"Karl Barth and Comparative Theology","volume":"19 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":"132367114","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":"God as Subject and Never Object to Us","authors":"Marc A. Pugliese","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823284603.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823284603.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Marc Pugliese offers a close reading of Śaṅkara’s interpretation of the Kena Upaniṣad and Barth’s reflections on the self-revelation of God (especially in CD 1/1), focusing on the issue of divine subjectivity. He notes that despite their differences, the two texts exhibit strong parallels in their descriptions of ultimate reality as utterly non-objectifiable. Most interesting is Pugliese’s suggestion that the Kena Upaniṣad can help respond to critics of Barth by further developing Barth’s theology of God’s subjectivity in ways that follow from what Barth himself says.","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":"114285475","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":"List of Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvk3gpgr.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvk3gpgr.22","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":446621,"journal":{"name":"Karl Barth and Comparative Theology","volume":"19 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":"126394103","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":"10.2307/J.CTVK3GPGR.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/J.CTVK3GPGR.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":446621,"journal":{"name":"Karl Barth and Comparative Theology","volume":"197 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128742382","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}