Author(s): Mark R. Lindsay
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 124
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 14
List of Abbreviations......Page 16
Introduction......Page 18
1 Jewish–Christian Relations Since 1945......Page 22
Obstacles Along the Way......Page 24
Confessional mea culpas: Church statements addressing the Holocaust......Page 26
Conclusion......Page 33
2 Barth and the Jewish People: The historical debate......Page 36
The Context of Controversy......Page 37
Reading Barth’s Ambiguity......Page 40
Barth and the Jewish People: How scholars have understood him......Page 42
Barth and the Jews: His personal relationships......Page 47
Conclusion......Page 56
3 Karl Barth and Natural Theology: A case study of the Holocaust as a theological locus......Page 58
The Problem of Natural Theology......Page 60
The Holocaust and the Doctrine of Evil......Page 66
Outline of a Doctrine......Page 69
An Evaluation......Page 73
Conclusion......Page 76
Postscript......Page 77
Out of the Ashes: The 1948 (re-)creation of Israel......Page 80
The Creation of Israel in ‘The Doctrine of Creation’......Page 85
De Gubernatione and the King of Israel......Page 88
The History of Israel as a Witness to the Rule of God......Page 94
Political Support for Israel as a Theological Necessity......Page 104
5 The Function of ‘Israel’ in the ‘Doctrine of Reconciliation’......Page 108
Christological Election as the Presupposition of Dialogic Possibilities......Page 110
The Jews in the Far Country......Page 114
The Royal Man......Page 117
The Ministry of the Reconciled Community......Page 119
Conclusion......Page 128
Bibliography......Page 132
H......Page 140
R......Page 141
Y......Page 142
J......Page 144
W......Page 145
