European Journal of Theology - Volume 32, Issue 2, 2023

Zusammenfassung Der vorliegende Artikel befasst sich mit zwei Fragen bezüglich Karl Barths Exegese in seinem berühmten Kommentar zum Römerbrief. Zunächst: ob Barths Exegese eine zuverlässige Richtschnur für die Kirche wie für interessierte Leser im 21. Jahrhundert darstellt. Zweitens: ob Barth Paulus‘ Gedankengang im Römerbrief gerecht wurde und ob er dessen Theologie treu wiedergab. Der Artikel versuc Read More

Summary This paper seeks to establish the current situation in respect of Barth reception among evangelicals, focussing on Barth reception among evangelicals in Scotland. Describing my own theological pilgrimage, I noted that this reception involved a contrast between two Reformed ‘tribes’, the one centred on Cornelius Van Til (against Barth) and the other on T.F. Torrance (for Barth). In the early period of Van Til’s criticism of Read More

Summary Plato’s dialogue Parmenides contains the infamous ontological bombshell, the so-called Third Man argument. This argument involves a reductio criticism of the forms, arguing that the reductio premise – roughly, ‘there cannot be any ontological interpenetration between the One and the many’ – is false. The argument intimates that the only way for thought to move beyond the forms is to accept the ‘impossible’ objec Read More

Summary The figure of Abraham occurs both in the Bible and in the Qur`an. In the Bible he is in particular held up as one whose faith is counted as righteousness. Similarly, the Qur`an reflects that Abraham is a ‘pure monotheist’ who will be among the righteous. He is also popularly understood as the Father of Faith, with interfaith and secular discourses representing him as the person who joins Judaism, Christianity and Islam tog Read More