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Theological Audacities - Selected Essays (Paperback)
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Description: ""That the God of Israel makes doers of us through the
Torah is, in my view, the most beautiful thing we can thank him
for: Every lethargy, every melancholy, indifference and moroseness
is ended . . . Wherever the Torah claims us as doers, it confronts
the nihilism that exclaims: There's nothing I can do. The Torah
opposes anti-revolutionary laziness"" (F.-W. Marquardt). This
anthology contains a selection of essays by Friedrich-Wilhelm
Marquardt (1928-2002), former professor of systematic theology at
the Free University of Berlin, Germany. As a student of Karl Barth
in the fifties, Marquardt became one of the most influential
pioneers in renewing the relationship between Christians and Jews
in Germany after the Shoah, as well as a Barth scholar proposing a
new perspective on Barth's theology and political radicalism.
Accordingly the essays contained in this volume deal with the two
main areas of interest in Marquardt's theological journey: Part 1
presents essays dealing with new perspectives in the relationship
between Christians and Jews after the Shoah, promoting for example
the significance of ""the Jewish No"" to the Messiahship of Jesus
for Christian theology, and the relevance of Talmudic studies for
Christians. Part 2 presents examples of Marquardt's approach to
Barth's theology, emphasizing the relevance of connecting the
theological and the political spheres in general, and the socialist
horizon in particular in Barth's theological framework. This
perspective is supported by an abundance of historical evidence and
by deciphering Barth's unpublished ""Socialist Speeches"" from the
Safenwil period. Endorsements: ""Why is the work of
Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt so little translated and little known
in the English-speaking world? Is this lack due to his radical
re-thinking of the Jewish foundations of Christianity after the
Shoah? Is it a result of his iconoclastic interpretation of Karl
Barth as a political theologian who shatters the constraints of
neo-orthodox categories? Or, is it due to his following
consequentially the implications of what it means to be a
Confessing Church in the political and economic events of our
times? This book begins to correct a theological slight.
Theological Audacities indeed "" --Craig L. Nessan Academic Dean
and Professor of Contextual Theology Wartburg Theological Seminary
About the Contributor(s): Friedrich-Wilhelm Marquardt (1928-2002)
was Professor of Systematic Theology at the Free University of
Berlin. Andreas Pangritz, editor, is Professor of Systematic
(Protestant) Theology and Director of the Ecumenical Institute at
the University of Bonn. He is author of Karl Barth in the Theology
of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2000). Paul S. Chung, editor, is Associate
Professor of Mission and World Christianity at Luther Seminary, St.
Paul, Minnesota. He is the author of Karl Barth: God's Word in
Action (2008).
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