Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-c47g7 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-23T06:46:34.032Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

The Concept of Truth in Karl Barth's Theology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Daniel D. Williams
Affiliation:
Professor of Systematic Theology, Union Theological Seminary, New York

Extract

In this paper on Karl Barth's conception of truth I shall try to state his position regarding the nature of truth and the criterion of truth, and secondly I shall draw from his position some propositions which I believe exhibit a pattern in his theology which brings it into close relationship to a philosophical tradition.

Type
Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1970

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

page 137 note 1 From an article by Barth published in 1914, ‘Belief in the Personal God’, quoted by Wilhelm Pauck in Karl Barth: Prophet of a New Christianity (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931), p. 48.Google Scholar

page 138 note 1 Barth, Karl, The Epistle to the Romans, English translation by Hoskyns, , from the 6th ed. (London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1933), p. 39.Google Scholar

page 138 note 2 Barth, Karl, The Word of God and the Word of Man. English translation by Horton, Douglas of early addresses. (Grand Rapids, Zandervan, 1935), p. 69.Google Scholar

page 138 note 3 Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics. English Translation of the Kirchliche Dogmatik, Vol. I/1, page 1. Hereafter C.D.

page 138 note 4 ibid., p. 9.

page 138 note 5 ibid., p. 8.

page 139 note 1 Barth, Karl, Dogmatics in Outline (New York: Philosophical Library, 1969), p. 26.Google Scholar

page 139 note 2 C.D. Vol. I/1, p. 214.

page 139 note 3 ibid., p. 134.

page 140 note 1 C.D. Vol. p. 47, cf. pp. 111–124.

page 140 note 2 ibid., p.135.

page 140 note 3 C.D. vol. IV/3, part 2, p. 903.

page 140 note 4 C.D. Vol. I/1, p. 11.

page 140 note 5 ibid., p. 5.

page 141 note 1 C.D. Vol. I/i, p. 12.

page 141 note 2 ibid., p. 252

page 141 note 3 ibid., p. 252.

page 142 note 1 Barth, Karl, Anselm, , Fides Quaerens Intellectum (Richmond: John Knox Press, 1960), p. 150.Google Scholar

page 143 note 1 Barth, Karl, Anselm, , Fides Quaerens Intellectum (Richmond: John Knox Press, 1960), p. 68.Google Scholar

page 143 note 2 ibid., p. 47.

page 143 note 3 ibid., p. 51.

page 144 note 1 Barth, Karl, ‘The Christian Understanding of Revelation’ in Against the Stream (New York: Philosophical Library, 1954), p. 211.Google Scholar

page 144 note 2 ibid., pp. 203, 212–13.

page 144 note 3 ibid., p. 220 (The phrase ‘concrete universal’ here is mine, not Barth's).

page 144 note 4 ibid., p. 215.