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God's Being Towards Fellowship

Schleiermacher, Barth, and the Meaning of ‘God is Love’

God's Being Towards Fellowship

Schleiermacher, Barth, and the Meaning of ‘God is Love’

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780567698186
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 26/11/2020
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm

Justin Stratis explores the meaning of the biblical phrase ‘God is love’ through an examination of two quintessentially modern Protestant theologians: Friedrich Schleiermacher and Karl Barth. This book contains both a detailed engagement with Schleiermacher’s untranslated lectures on Dialektik and their relation to his more well-known work, as well as a new assessment of Barth’s doctrine of God which both respects his radical innovations and yet places him within the stream of traditional, catholic trinitarianism.

After considering the complexities of theological predication, and comparing several classical and contemporary approaches to the implication of ‘love’, Stratis presents and ultimately commends the distinct approaches of Schleiermacher and Barth for their tendency to treat divine love as a ‘conclusion’ to the doctrine of God, rather than as a conceptual starting point. In contrast to many contemporary approaches, Stratis concludes with the suggestion that God’s love is best conceived as his being toward fellowship, rather than as the eminent instance of loving fellowship understood according to human experiences of love.

Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Friedrich Schleiermacher and the Active God of Love
Introduction to Part I
Chapter 1: God as the Universe in On Religion
Chapter 2: God as the Presupposition of Knowledge in the Dialektik
Chapter 3: God as the Whence of the Feeling of Absolute Dependence in the Introduction to the Glaubenslehre
Chapter 4: Schleiermacher’s Doctrine of God
Conclusion to Part I
Part II: Karl Barth and the Personal God of Love
Introduction to Part II
Chapter 5: Knowing God
Chapter 6: God as the One who Loves in Freedom
Chapter 7: The Christological Shape of the Divine Identity
Conclusion to Part II
Conclusion: God's Being Towards Fellowship
Bibliography
Index

Justin Stratis (Trinity College Bristol, UK)

Justin Stratis is Tutor in Christian Doctrine at Trinity College Bristol, UK.