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Into the Far Country

Karl Barth and the Modern Subject

  • Hardback
  • 392 pages
  • Publisher: Fortress Press,U.S.
  • 15.3 x 23.2 x 2.1 cm

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For theologians and philosophy enthusiasts seeking depth

Addresses challenges of modernity in understanding self

You will gain fresh perspectives on human identity in Christ

Explore Karl Barth's profound insights on modern subjectivity.

Into the Far Country is an investigation of Karl Barth's response to modernity as seen through the prism of the subject under judgment. By suggesting that Barth offers a form of theological resistance to the Enlightenment's construal of human subjectivity as "absolute," this piece offers a way of talking about the formation of human persons as the process of being kenotically laid bare before the cross and resurrection of Christ. It does so by revaluating the relationship between Barth and modernity, making the case that Barth understands Protestantism to have become the agent of its own demise by capitulating to modernity's insistence on the axiomatic priority of the isolated Cartesian ego. Conversations are hosted with figures including Fyodor Dostoevsky, Rowan Williams, Gillian Rose and Donald MacKinnon in-the service of elucidating an account of the human person liberated from captivity to what Barth names "self-judgment," and freed for creative participation in the super-abundant source of life that is the prayerful movement from the Son to the Father in the Spirit.
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  • Title

    Into the Far Country

  • Author

    Scott A. Kirkland

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Fortress Press,U.S.

  • Published

    July 2016

  • Weight

    523g

  • Page Count

    392

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 23.2 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9781506401379

  • ISBN-10

    1506401376

  • Eden Code

    4456541