Karl Barth and Liberation Theology

Paul Dafydd Jones, Kaitlyn Dugan, Paul Dafydd Jones, Kaitlyn Dugan

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9780567698827
• eBook ISBN:
  9780567698803
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Theology

This volume puts Barth and liberation theologies in critical and constructive conversation. With incisive essays from a range of noted scholars, it forges new connections between Barth's expansive corpus and the multifaceted world of Christian liberation theology. It shows how Barth and liberation theologians can help us to make sense of – and perhaps even to respond to – some of the most pressing issues of our day: race and racism in the United States; changing understandings of sex, gender, and sexuality; the ongoing degradation of the ecosphere; the relationship between faith, theological reflection, and the arts; the challenge of decolonizing Christian thought; and ecclesial and political life in the Global South.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Dedication
• Title
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction: Karl Barth—Orthodox, Modern, and Liberative?
• Chapter 1 Karl Barth and the Origins of Liberation Theology
• Chapter 2 Of Gods and Men, and Wolves—the “Other Question”: Between Projection, Colonial Imagination, and Liberation
• Chapter 3 The Generative Female Body and the Analogy of Faith in Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics
• Chapter 4 The Disabled God and Covenant Ontology
• Chapter 5 Karl Barth and Korean Theology, Past and Present
• Chapter 6 Karl Barth’s Theology of Political Participation: An Egyptian Appropriation
• Chapter 7 Karl Barth and Liberation Theologies in South Africa: The Difficulties of Comparison, Conversation, and Constructive Reflection
• Chapter 8 Liberation Theology in a South African Context: Does Karl Barth Have Anything to Offer Here?
• Chapter 9 Using Barth “to Justify Doing Nothing”: James Cone’s Unanswered Challenge to the Whiteness of Barth Studies
• Chapter 10 Clothed in Flesh: The Artist, Liberation, and the Future of Barthian Theology
• Chapter 11 Thelonious Monk, Icon of the Eschaton: Karl Barth, James Cone, and the “Impossible-possibility” of a Theology of Freedom
• Chapter 12 Turning Barth Right-side-up: James Cone and the Risk of a Contextual Theology of Revelation
• Chapter 13 Liberation Theology and Karl Barth in the Shadow of the Alt-Right: White Supremacism, Political Protest, and Ecclesiology after Charlottesville
• Bibliography
• List of Contributors
• Index
• Copyright