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The Stranger as Sacrament: Karl Barth and the Ethics of Ecclesial Practice>
Author(s) -
Mangina Joseph L.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
international journal of systematic theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.149
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1468-2400
pISSN - 1463-1652
DOI - 10.1111/1463-1652.00022
Subject(s) - ambivalence , gospel , relation (database) , christian ministry , interpretation (philosophy) , theology , philosophy , action (physics) , sociology , psychology , psychoanalysis , linguistics , physics , quantum mechanics , database , computer science
Recent theology has devoted attention to ecclesial practices as a matrix for ethical reflection. Barth stands in ambivalent relation to these developments. On the one hand, Barth urges consideration of the relation of church practice to the gospel of divine action; on the other, Barth's christocentric account of ethics might be corrected by an ethics of ecclesial practice. The ambivalence is explored in an interpretation of Barth's account of the ministry of the Christian community in Church Dogmatics IV/3 and of his treatment of love of one's neighbour in I/2.