Karl Barth was well-known for his criticism of German nationalism
as a corrupting influence on the German protestant churches in the
Nazi era. Defining and recognising nationhood as distinct from the
state is an important though underappreciated task in Barth's
theology. It flows out of his deep concern for the capacity for
nationalist dogma - that every nation must have its own state - to
promote warfare. The problem motivated him to make his famous break
with German liberal protestant theology. In this book, Carys
Moseley traces how Barth reconceived nationhood in the light of a
lifelong interest in the exegesis and preaching of the Pentecost
narrative in Acts 2. She shows how his responsibilities as a pastor
of the Swiss Reformed Church required preaching on this text as
part of the church calendar, and thus how his defence of the
inclusion of the filioque clause in the Niceno-Constantinopolitan
Creed stemmed from his ministry, homiletics and implicit
missiology. The concern to deny that nations exist primordially in
creation was a crucial reason for Barth's dissent from his
contemporaries over the orders of creation, and that his polemic
against 'natural theology' was largely driven by rejection of the
German liberal idea that the rise and fall of nations is part of a
cycle of nature which simply reflect divine action. Against this
conceit, Barth advanced his famous doctrine of the election of
Israel as part of the election of the community of the people of
God. This is the way into understanding the division of the world
into nations, and the divine recognition of all nations as
communities wherein people are meant to seek God.
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