Commanding Grace: Studies in Karl Barth's EthicsDaniel L. Migliore In this seminal volume, contemporary theologians revisit the theological ethics of Karl Barth as it bears on such topics as the moral significance of Jesus Christ, the Christian as ethical agent, the just war theory, the relationship between doctrines of the atonement and modern penal justice systems, the virtues and limits of democracy, and the difference between an economy of competition and possession and an economy of grace. Book jacket. |
Contents
Karl Barths Ethics Revisited | 26 |
Protestant Thomism | 50 |
Barth and Werpehowski on War Presumption | 83 |
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