Ethics in Crisis

Ethics in Crisis offers a constructive proposal for the shape of contemporary Christian ethics drawing on a new and persuasive interpretation of the ethics of Karl Barth. David Clough argues that Karl Barth's ethical thought remained defined by the theology of crisis that he set out in his 1922 commentary on Romans, and that his ethics must therefore be understood dialectically, caught in an unresolved tension between what theology must and cannot be. Showing that this understanding of Barth is a resource for contemporary constructive accounts of Christian ethics, Clough points to a way beyond the idolatry of ethical absolutism on the one hand, and the apostasy of ethical postmodernism on the other.

Autorentext

David Stone St John's College, Durham, UK

Inhalt

Introduction; Part I The Romans II Crisis; Chapter 1 Ethics in Crisis; Chapter 2 Ethics Within the Crisis; Chapter 3 Response to the Romans II Crisis; Part II Crisis Beyond Romans II; Chapter 4 From Romans to the Dogmatics; Chapter 5 The Place of Ethics in the Dogmatics; Chapter 6 Love and Community in the Dogmatics; Chapter 7 War, Peace, and Revolution in the Dogmatics; Part III Re-Reading Barth's Ethics; Chapter 8 Interpreting Barth's Ethics; Chapter 9 Barth's Ethics Today;