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A Fellowship of Baptism - Karl Barth's Ecclesiology in Light of His Understanding of Baptism (Paperback)
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A Fellowship of Baptism - Karl Barth's Ecclesiology in Light of His Understanding of Baptism (Paperback)
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Description: A Fellowship of Baptism is a critical rereading of
Karl Barth's ecclesiology, arguing that reading his ecclesiology
through the lens of his mature view of baptism best enables one to
understand Barth's view of the church. Barth's insistence on
believer's baptism is connected to the free-church ecclesiology he
develops in the Church Dogmatics. The church, for Barth, is a
gathered, concrete community formed by the Holy Spirit. The result
of believer's baptism should be a community that is free from
cultural and political control so that it can serve the world and
witness to it. At the same time, questions are raised about Barth's
rejection of the sacramental nature of baptism and the implications
this has for ecclesiology. The strengths of believer's baptism and
the weakness of his non-sacramental view are both seen in his
writings on the church and are brought into conversation with one
another. Reading Barth's ecclesiology and doctrine of baptism
together helps to show the interdependence of baptism and
ecclesiology in Barth as well as in all church teaching and
practice. Endorsements: ""Considering Barth's view of Baptism,
Tracey Stout helpfully demonstrates how and why Baptism,
Ecclesiology, Christology, Pneumatology, and Ethics are all
intimately connected. Stout judiciously maintains that, despite
Barth's later tendency to separate the church's sacramental actions
from the action of the Holy Spirit, we can still learn from Barth
how and why it is important to understand that divine action
enables free human action and thus encourages Christians to develop
an appropriate Ecclesiology, Ethics, and Political Theology. This
book serves its subject well and deserves to be widely read.""
--Paul D. Molnar Professor of Systematic Theology St. John's
University, New York ""Even the most vigorous of Karl Barth
enthusiasts often remain perplexed at his late turn concerning
baptism, as he rejected infant baptism in favor of believers'
baptism. In this masterly study of Barth on baptism, Tracey Stout
demonstrates that Barth's drastic shift was not made in opposition
to Christian sacramentalism so much as for the sake of Christian
freedom, most especially for the liberty of the church. For Barth,
it is only when the entire Body of Christ makes its intentional
witness to the world that it can become God's truly confessional
community. Stout's treatment of this crucial matter will thus
garner the interest of students and professors, of pastors and
laypeople alike."" --Ralph C. Wood University Professor of Theology
and Literature Baylor University About the Contributor(s): Tracey
Mark Stout is Associate Professor of Christian Studies at Bluefield
College in Bluefield, Virginia.
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