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Friendship and Being: Election and Trinitarian Freedom in M oltmann and B arth
Author(s) -
Komline Hanluen Kantzer
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
modern theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.144
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1468-0025
pISSN - 0266-7177
DOI - 10.1111/moth.12000
Subject(s) - doctrine , friendship , reading (process) , philosophy , theology , psychology , social psychology , linguistics
This article constructs two responses to M oltmann's critique of B arth's doctrine of divine freedom in Trinity and the Kingdom , a first on the basis of B arth's programmatic treatment of divine freedom in II /1 of the Church Dogmatics and a second on the basis of B ruce McC ormack's reading of B arth's doctrine of election. It shows why the B arth of II /1 must dismiss M oltmann's concern for the priority of God's loving relationship to the world while B arth as interpreted by McC ormack can accommodate it. Finally it observes the significance of this twofold defense for mapping B arth onto the terrain of modern theology.