Trinitarian Theology after Barth

412 Pages·2012·3.532 MB·English

by  Myk Habets (editor), Phillip Tolliday (editor)

Trinitarian Theology
after Barth
Edited by
Myk Habets and Phillip Tolliday
Foreword by
John Webster
C
Trinitarian Theology after Barth

Trinitarian Theology after Barth
Edited by
Myk Habets and
Phillip Tolliday
Foreword by
John Webster
C
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Contents
List of Contributors / vii
Foreword—John B. Webster / xi
Preface—Myk Habets and Phillip Tolliday / xiii
Acknowledgments / xvi
Abbreviations / xvii
part one: Theology with Barth
1
The Role of the Holy Spirit in Knowing the Triune God—
Paul D. Molnar / 3
2
Divine Light: Some Reflections after Barth
—Ivor J. Davidson / 48
3
The Spatiality of God—Murray Rae / 70
4
The Doctrine of the Trinity after Barth: An Attempt to
Reconstruct Barth’s Doctrine in the Light of His Later
Christology—Bruce L. McCormack / 87
part two: Theology after Barth
5
Election, Trinity, and the History of Jesus: Reading Barth
with Rowan Williams—Benjamin Myers / 121
6
Obedience and Subordination in Barth’s Trinity
—Phillip Tolliday / 138
7
Filioque? Nein: A Proposal for Coherent Coinherence
—Myk Habets / 161
8
The Triune Savior of the World—Andrew Burgess / 203
9
The Contribution of Karl Barth’s Doctrine
of Appropriation to a Trinitarian Ecclesiology
—Adam McIntosh / 221
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10
Why Do Humans Die? An Exploration of the Necessity of
Death in the Theology of Robert Jenson with Reference to
Karl Barth’s Discussion of “Ending Time”
—Andrew Nicol / 241
11
Prayer, Particularity, and the Subject of Divine
Personhood: Who Are Brümmer and Barth Invoking
When They Pray?—John C. McDowell / 255
part three: Theology beyond Barth
12
The Doctrine of the Trinity—The Major Stumbling
Block in Inter-Religious Dialogue? Reflections on the
Methodological Function of Theological Concepts
—Ulrike Link-Wieczorek / 287
13
Temporality, Triunity, and the Third Article:
The Mediatorial Work of the Holy Spirit in Karl Barth’s
Church Dogmatics—Antony Glading / 311
14
The Dynamic Stillness of God: Trinitarian Conceptions of
Divine Immutability and Impassibility
—Haydn D. Nelson / 332
15
Reconciling Normative Tensions in Biomedical Ethics:
Constructing an Ethics of Coinherence Informed by the
Trinitarian Theology of Karl Barth—Ashley Moyse / 355
16
Vestiges of Trinity—Nicola Hoggard-Creegan / 377
Subject Index / 393
Author Index / 397
Contributors
Andrew Burgess, Vicar of All Saints Anglican Parish, Nelson, New
Zealand, and Lecturer in Systematic Theology at Bishopdale Theological
College. His publications include The Ascension in Karl Barth (Ashgate,
2004).
Ivor J. Davidson, Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology
and Head of the School of Divinity at the University of St. Andrews,
Scotland. His publications include Ambrose: De Officiis, edited with an
introduction, translation, and commentary (Oxford University Press,
2002); and numerous other studies in patristics and modern theology.
He is a series editor for T. & T. Clark’s Studies in Systematic Theology
Monograph Series.
Antony Glading, Pastor of Otahuhu Baptist Church, Auckland,
New Zealand. He is completing an MTh from Laidlaw-Carey Graduate
School with a thesis entitled “The Meaning and Significance of Jesus
Christ as the Subject of Election in Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics.”
Myk Habets, Lecturer in Systematic Theology, and Director of the
R. J. Thompson Centre for Theological Studies, Carey Baptist College
and Graduate School, Auckland, New Zealand. His publications in-
clude: Theosis in the Theology of Thomas Torrance (Ashgate, 2009), The
Anointed Son (Pickwick, 2010), and The Spirit of Truth, editor (Pickwick,
2010). He is currently working on a series of edited books to do with
Calvinism, gender, culture, and the filioque.
Nicola Hoggard-Creegan, Senior Lecturer in Systematic Theology
at Laidlaw College and Graduate School, Auckland, New Zealand.
She chairs a Local Society Initiative in theology and the natural sci-
ences (TANSA), and writes a column on science and faith issues for
the NZ journal Stimulus. Her publications include Evangelicalism and
Feminism: Living on the Boundary (IVP, 2005), with Christine Pohl, and
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a forthcoming work entitled Animal Suffering and the Problem of Evil
(Macmillan).
Ulrike Link-Wieczorek, Professor of Systematic Theology, Institute
of Evangelical Theology and Religious Education, Carl von Ossietzky
University, Oldenburg, Germany. Her publications include Reden
von Gott in Afrika und Asien (1991), Inkarnation oder Inspiration?
Christologische Grundfragen in der Diskussion mit britischer anglikanis-
cher Theologie (1998), and Profilierte Ökumene. Bleibend Wichtiges und
jetzt Dringliches, FS für Dietrich Ritschl zum 80, edited with Fernando
Enns and Martin Hailer (2009).
Bruce L. McCormack, Charles Hodge Professor of Systematic Theo-
logy, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ. His publications
include Karl Barth’s Critically Realistic Dialectical Theology: Its Genesis
and Development, 1909–1936 (Clarendon, 1995) and Orthodox and
Modern: Studies in the Theology of Karl Barth (Baker Academic, 2008).
John C. McDowell, Morpeth Professor of Theology at the University
of Newcastle. He is the author of Hope in Barth’s Eschatology (Ashgate,
2000) and The Gospel according to Star Wars (Westminster John Knox,
2007), and the co-editor of Conversing with Barth (Ashgate, 2004). He
has authored numerous articles on Barth—on the doctrine of election,
hope, the theological relation to Brünner, das nichtige, and wickedness,
natural theology, political agency, and prayer—in academic journals
such as Modern Theology, Scottish Journal of Systematic Theology, and
International Journal of Theology. Among other things, he is presently
writing two books on Barth—Barth as a conversational theologian, and
Barth’s account of prayer as shaping political agency.
Adam McIntosh, Minister of the South Ballarat Uniting Church,
Victoria, Australia. He has published articles on theology in journals
such as Pacifica on topics including trinitarian theology, ecclesiology,
and theology of human and animal relations.
Paul D. Molnar, Professor of Systematic Theology, Department of
Theology and Religious Studies, St. John’s University, New York. His
publications include numerous articles in professional journals and
Divine Freedom and the Doctrine of the Immanent Trinity: In Dialogue
Contributors ix
with Karl Barth and Contemporary Theology (T. & T. Clark, 2002); and
Thomas F. Torrance: Theologian of the Trinity (Ashgate, 2009).
Ashley J. Moyse, PhD student at the University of Newcastle,
Australia. His research, under the supervision of John C. McDowell,
focuses on the intersection of theology and medicine with particular
interest in Karl Barth’s theological anthropology. He is also a Sessional
Instructor in the Faculty of Science, the University of the Fraser Valley,
BC, Canada, where he teaches courses in human anatomy and physiol-
ogy, applied physiology, and health ethics.
Benjamin Myers, Lecturer in Systematic Theology, Charles Sturt
University School of Theology, Sydney, Australia. He is author of
Milton’s Theology of Freedom (de Gruyter, 2006), a forthcoming book
on the theology of Rowan Williams (T. & T. Clark), and many journal
articles on modern theology.
Haydn D. Nelson, Lecturer in Theological Ethics and Apologetics,
Vose Seminary, and Executive Minister, Riverview Church, in Perth,
Western Australia. His publications include “A Trinitarian Perspective
on the Destiny of the Unevangelised,” in Text and Task: Scripture and
Mission, edited by Michael Parsons (Paternoster, 2006), and The Problem
of the Providence of God: How Can a God outside This World Also Be
Present in It? (Edwin Mellen, 2010).
Andrew Nicol, PhD student at the University of Otago, Dunedin,
New Zealand. His research evaluates the identification and significance
of the “God of Israel” in Robert W. Jenson’s theology. He was previ-
ously Head of Religious Studies at St. Bede’s Prep School, East Sussex,
England.
Murray A. Rae, Associate Professor of Theology at the University of
Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. His publications include History and
Hermeneutics (T. & T. Clark, 2005), The Person of Christ, edited with
Stephen R. Holmes (T. & T. Clark, 2005), Kierkegaard’s Vision of the
Incarnation: By Faith Transformed (Clarendon Press, 1997), and The
Practice of Theology: A Reader, edited with Colin E. Gunton and Stephen
R. Holmes (SCM, 2001).