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Julian Templeton examines Karl Barth's shifting treatment of feeling, placing it in conversation with Friedrich Schleiermacher's theology of feeling (Gefühl).
Affect – defined as changeable disposition and environmental attunement – provides an initial orientation and periodic parallel for this study. Templeton argues that Barth had four different responses to feeling. First, as a student of modern theology influenced by Schleiermacher, Barth embraced human feeling as the indicator of Christian truth. Second, as a pastor faced with the demands of preaching and the First World War, Barth critiqued feeling as liable to mislead. Instead, he sought a dynamic objectivity revealed in God's otherness. Third, as a professor of theology confronted with the idolatry of Nazism, Barth repurposed feeling as a self-determination by which the Church corresponds to God's determining Word in Jesus Christ. Fourth, as a theologian influenced by Anselm's prayerful rejoicing in God's glory and beauty, Barth reorientated human feeling by centring it in God's triune being. Glory is the outward demonstration of God's indwelling and overflowing joy. Glory finds its nearest correspondence in Creation's rejoicing.
The Church is part of Creation that intentionally opens itself to God's joy. This intentional openness also enlarges the Church's capacity to be affected by suffering.
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Table of Contents
a. Feeling and affect
b. Introduction to Karl Barth's life and work
c. Summary of argument
1. Feeling, affect, and a crisis of confidence
a. Kant, Schleiermacher, Gefühl, and Affect
b. The affective dimension of Barth's early development, crisis, and reaction
c. Der Römerbrief 1919 and contemporaneous lectures
2. Interruption, dialectical witness, and the quality of grace
a. Romans II
b. The move to Göttingen and the Elgersburg Lecture
c. The Göttingen Lectures on Schleiermacher
3. The Word of God and human contradiction
a. The Göttingen–Münster Dogmatics 1924–26
b. Christian Dogmatics in Outline: Prolegomena 1927
c. Anselm: Fides Quaerens Intellectum 1931
4. The repurposing of feeling
a. The inclusion of feeling as a self-determination in Church Dogmatics I/1
b. Feeling as an affective self-determination by which God is acknowledged
c. The First Commandment as an Axiom of Theology; Theological Existence Today, 1933
d. The repurposing of feeling in Church Dogmatics I/2
5. God's glory and the creature's joy
a. The context and themes of Church Dogmatics II/1
b. Self-determination and the middle voice
c. God's perfection of glory and the creature's feeling of joy
d. Beauty as the form of God's glory and the feeling of delight
e. Readiness for joy that also acknowledges suffering in Church Dogmatics III/4
Conclusion
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| Published | 07 Jan 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 216 |
| ISBN | 9780567717313 |
| Imprint | T&T Clark |
| Series | T&T Clark Explorations in Reformed Theology |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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