Karl Barth and the Resurrection of the Flesh: The Loss of the Body in Participatory Eschatology (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780227174104)

A challenging critique of Karl Barth's theology of the resurrection of the flesh, highlighting the problems in the idea of a participatory eschatology.

Early Christian writers preferred to speak of the coming resurrection in the most bodily way possible: the resurrection of the flesh. Twentieth-century theologian Karl Barth took the same avenue, daring to speak of humans' eternal life in rather striking corporeal terms. In this study, Nathan Hitchcock pulls together Barth's doctrine of the resurrection of the flesh, anticipating what the great thinker might have said more systematically in volume V of his 'Church Dogmatics'. Provocatively, Hitchcock goes on to argue that Barth's description of the resurrection - as eternalization, as manifestation, as incorporation - bears much in common with some unlikely programs and, contrary to its intention, jeopardizes the very contours of human life it hopes to preserve. In addition to contributing to Barth studies, this book offers a sober warning to theologians pursuing eschatology through notions of participation.

Author: Nathan Hitchcock
ISBN-10: 0227174100
ISBN-13: 9780227174104
Publisher: James Clarke Company
Language: English
Published: 07/25/2013
Pages: 228
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d