God's Time For Us :

Cassidy, James J.

God's Time For Us : Barth's Reconciliation of Eternity and Time in Jesus Christ. - 1 online resource (224 pages) - Studies in Historical and Systematic Theology . - Studies in Historical and Systematic Theology .

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Eternity and Time in the Theology of Karl Barth -- A Third Time-Sphere -- Toward a Christological Reading of Eternity and Time -- Chapter 2: The Doctrine of God in Barth's Conception of Eternity and Time -- Literary Features of Barth's Doctrine of God -- The Trinity and the Rapprochement of Eternity and Time -- Election and the McCormack Proposal -- Election and Trinity -- Trinity and the Rapprochement of Eternity and Time -- The Three Time-Spheres -- Barth's Christological Ontology -- The Rapprochement of Eternity and Time in God -- Knowledge of God -- Revelation of God -- Divine Perfections -- God's Temporality -- The Rapprochement of Eternity and Time in Ethics -- Jesus the Decree of God -- The Transcendent Decree -- The Claim of God -- The Superiority of the Decree -- Debriefing -- Chapter 3: The Doctrine of Creation in Barth's Conception of Eternity and Time -- Act and Creation -- Jesus Christ, the Creature of God -- Creation before Creation: The Transcendent Act of God -- Creation in the Light of Revelation, Election, and Reconciliation -- Dualism and Analogy -- On Death and the Afterlife -- An Appraisal -- Chapter 4: The Doctrine of Reconciliation in Barth's Conception of Eternity and Time -- Incarnation and Reconciliation: One Act, and Many Acts -- It's a Matter of Ontology -- The Priority of the Ontological over the Forensic in Reconciliation -- Incarnation, Reconciliation, and the Other Theological Loci -- In Our Time, but Not of It: Our History and the Event of Reconciliation -- Bridging Lessing's Ugly Ditch -- Between the Already and Not Yet -- Not by Human Devices: Reconciliation in Summary -- Chapter 5: The Doctrine of Revelation in Barth's Conception of Eternity and Time -- Eternity, Time, and Revelation -- Preliminary Considerations. The Pre-Effective Word -- The Time of Revelation and Reconciliation -- Eternity, Time, and the Trinity -- Revelation and Trinity -- Time and Trinity -- Summarizing Revelation -- Chapter 6: Conclusion -- Christology, Time, and Eternity -- Critical Questions -- Bibliography -- Subject and Author Index.

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