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"Jesus is Victor!" - The Significance of the Blumhardts for the Theology of Karl Barth (Paperback)
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"Jesus is Victor!" - The Significance of the Blumhardts for the Theology of Karl Barth (Paperback)
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Description: IN THIS INNOVATIVE WORK, Christian T. Collins Winn
examines the role played by the Pietist pastors Johann Christoph
Blumhardt (1805-1880) and Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt (1842-1919)
in the development of Karl Barth's theology. The disparate
theological themes and dynamics of the two Blumhardts were
crystallized in their eschatology, and Collins Winn argues that as
early as 1916 Barth had appropriated this ""Blumhardtian
eschatological deposit"" in ways fundamental to his own theological
development. Against the grain of current Barth scholarship, this
book establishes how the theology of the Blumhardts, though
critically reconstructed, was not merely an episodic in uence on
Barth's work. Instead, the Blumhardts had a complex and enduring
impact on Barth, such that their imprint can be detected even in
the mature theology of his Church Dogmatics. In treading new ground
into Barth's theological formation, Jesus Is Victor represents an
important contribution to the eld of Barth studies. Endorsements:
""Christian T. Collins Winn shows how the Easter message was the
main issue in the whole theology of Karl Barth. The author makes it
clear that Barth learned it in a free manner especially from both
Blumhardts. And this book invites us to learn the same from those
three prophetic theologians."" --EBERHARD BUSCH author of Karl
Barth: His Life from Letters and Autobiographical Texts
""Interpreters of Barth have often acknowledged the in uence of the
Blumhardts (father and son) on the theology of Barth, but they have
not very often taken this suggestion seriously enough to expound
the nature and development of his theology from this perspective.
Collins Winn does this in Jesus Is Victor , and in so doing opens a
new chapter in Barth studies. His mastery of the secondary
literature is outstanding, and he shows the profound in uence of
the Blumhardts at both the beginnings of Barth's struggle to nd a
new path for theology and at the end, as his theology found mature
expression in the latter volumes of the Church Dogmatics.""
--DONALD W. DAYTON author of Theological Roots of Pentecostalism
""Little attention has been paid to the in uence of the Blumhardts
on Karl Barth's theology. Collins Winn convincingly shows, however,
that these Pietists have in uenced Barth's theology at key points
in its development. Displaying a masterful grasp of his subjects,
Winn paints for us a portrait of both Barth and Pietism that upsets
some long-held stereotypes. Those interested in Barth's theology or
Pietism cannot afford to ignore this book."" --FRANK D. MACCHIA
author of Spirituality and Social Liberation: The Message of the
Blumhardts in the Light of Wuerttemberg Pietism ""A North American
theologian has here ventured, not only to study the numerous works
of Barth translated into English, but rather has even engaged with
the mostly untranslated primary and secondary literature of the
Blumhardts. The result is impressive. Collins Winn has focused his
argument while keeping his horizons wide, has carefully studied the
primary sources and secondary literature, and has provided subtly
differentiated conclusions. And he has done this with a diction and
idiom that makes the reading a delight."" --DIETER ISING author of
Johann Christoph Blumhardt, Life and Work About the Contributor(s):
Christian T. Collins Winn is Assistant Professor of Historical and
Systematic Theology at Bethel University in St. Paul, MN. He is the
editor of From the Margins: A Celebration of the Theological Work
of Donald W. Dayton (2007).
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