Barth Booth, Pt. 3 / Stanley Hauerwas / Karl Barth and the Nature of Theological Language

The Theology Mill

The Barth Booth is a virtual exhibit devoted to the life and work of Karl Barth. The exhibit is hosted on the Wipf and Stock Blog and includes a set of interviews with Barth scholars, as well as a selection of Wipf and Stock’s books by and about Barth. You can find the link to the booth below.

Dr. Stanley Hauerwas is the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus of Divinity and Law at Duke Divinity School. In 2001, Time Magazine named him "America's Best Theologian." He is the author of a great many books, including his most recent, Fully Alive: The Apocalyptic Humanism of Karl Barth.

PODCAST LINKS:

The Barth Booth: https://wipfandstock.com/blog/2023/03/07/the-barth-booth/

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SOURCES MENTIONED:

Barth, Karl. Anselm: Fides Quarens Intellectum.

———. Church Dogmatics. 14 vols.

———. Protestant Theology in the Nineteenth Century.

Hauerwas, Stanley. Fully Alive: The Apocalyptic Humanism of Karl Barth.

———. With the Grain of the Universe: The Church’s Witness and Natural Theology.

Hunsicker, David B. The Making of Stanley Hauerwas: Bridging Barth and Postliberalism.

Niebuhr, Reinhold. The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation.

Scheeben, Matthias Joseph. Nature and Grace.

OUTLINE:

(02:06) – Colombian coffee and water

(02:56) – Discovering Barth at Yale Divinity

(05:00) – “Barth is always new”

(07:06) – Saying what needs to be said without apology

(08:16) – “Jesus is Lord, and everything else is bullsh*t"

(10:32) – Barth and the dialectical theologians

(12:16) – Barth’s ecclesiology

(15:57) – Barth’s reading

(17:21) – Barth and Anselm

(21:01) – Barth and Wittgenstein

(23:42) – Barth and postliberalism

(25:08) – Theological language that “does work”

(28:32) – Barth’s apocalypticism

(33:26) – Barthian humanism and “high humanism”

(35:33) – Barth and America

(37:51) – Barth’s “complex simplicity”

(40:25) – Dogmatics in Outline and CD 4/2

(42:19) – The future of Barth