Karl Barth's Theological Exegesis

Richard E. Burnett is associate professor of theology at Erskine Theological Seminary, Due West, South Carolina. He has been a pastor in the Presbyterian Church (USA) for more than a decade and has served churches in Tennessee, New Jersey, and North Carolina

Foreword

ix

Preface

xiii

Introduction

1

(12)

A Hermeneutical Manifesto: Barth's Hermeneutical Discovery in Context

13

(52)

The Priority of Exegesis over Hermeneutics

14

(9)

Karl Barth's Commitment to Theological Exegesis

23

(8)

The Post-War Appraisal of Barth's Hermeneutic

31

(4)

Karl Barth's Problem with ``The Hermeneutical Problem''

35

(6)

The Being of God is the Hermeneutical Problem: Background to Barth's Discovery

41

(9)

From Special Hermeneutics to General Hermeneutics

50

(6)

The School of the Holy Spirit

56

(9)

Sachlicher, Inhaltlicher, Wesentlicher

65

(30)

Karl Barth's ``Turn to the Bible''

65

(5)

Wilhelm Herrmann: A Sachlicher Approach

70

(4)

What Exactly is die Sache of the Bible

74

(4)

The Whole in Light of its Parts and the Parts in Light of the Whole

78

(6)

The Challenge of Interpreting ``What is There'' Dialectically

84

(2)

Truth and Memory

86

(9)

Entering into the Meaning of the Bible

95

(30)

A Scientific Approach to Exegesis

96

(4)

A Living Context

100

(11)

Active Participation

111

(14)

No Reading Out Without Reading In

112

(2)

Like Through Like

114

(3)

Until I Almost Forget That I Am Not the Author

117

(8)

With More Attention and Love

125

(96)

With or About the Author

125

(3)

The Historical-Pyschological Approach of Paul Wernle

128

(6)

Beyond Religious Personality and Experience

134

(8)

A Short History of the Empathetic Tradition of Interpretation

142

(42)

Johann Gottfried von Herder

143

(6)

Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher

149

(9)

Wilhelm Dilthey

158

(8)

Ernst Troeltsch and Georg Wobbermin

166

(3)

The Young Karl Barth (Pre-1915)

169

(2)

``Modern Theology and Work in the Kingdom of God''

171

(5)

``The Christian Faith and History''

176

(8)

A Hermeneutics of Love and Trust

184

(37)

No Art of Empathy can Offer the Slightest Substitute

185

(7)

A Relationship of Faithfulness

192

(5)

An Emergency Clause

197

(10)

Caritas: an Excursus

207

(1)

Love is a Gift, a Miracle

208

(2)

Love is Always for Another

210

(3)

To Love is to Receive and be a Witness

213

(8)

The Meaning of the Bible Itself

221

(34)

The Language and the Content are One

221

(9)

The Service of Historical Criticism

230

(10)

The Art of Paraphrasing

240

(10)

Calvin as Exemplar

250

(5)

Conclusion

255

(10)

Appendix 1 The Historical Background of the Preface to the First Edition of Barth's Romerbrief

265

(12)

Appendix 2 The Preface Drafts to the First Edition of Barth's Romerbrief

277

(16)

Bibliography

293

(14)

Indexes

307

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