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Reading Karl Barth in Myanmar:

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The Significance of His Political Theology for a Public Theology in Myanmar

David Thang Moe

Leiden

Brill

This article pays particular attention to the three themes in Barth's macro-political theology and their contextual significance for a micro-political theology for Myanmar. First, I explore Barth's renewed doctrine of political Lordship in response to the traditional doctrine of two kingdoms. Second, I examine his hermeneutics of the dialectical relation between church and state and the ethical role of the church in the sociopolitical situation in the light of his theological document of the Barmen Declaration against the evil of Nazism and the errors of the church. Finally, I seek to show how Barth's political theology and liberation theology are convergent and divergent in their synthetic goals of transforming unjust rulers and liberating the oppressed, reforming and renewing the ethnic church, and establishing an embracive and reconciled community in Myanmar. This article pays particular attention to the three themes in Barth's macro-political theology and their contextual significance for a micro-political theology for Myanmar. First, I explore Barth's renewed doctrine of political Lordship in response to the traditional doctrine of two kingdoms. Second, I examine his hermeneutics of the dialectical relation between church and state and the ethical role of the church in the sociopolitical situation in the light of his theological document of the Barmen Declaration against the evil of Nazism and the errors of the church. Finally, I seek to show how Barth's political theology and liberation theology are convergent and divergent in their synthetic goals of transforming unjust rulers and liberating the oppressed, reforming and renewing the ethnic church, and establishing an embracive and reconciled community in Myanmar.

2018

416-439

International Journal of Public Theology

12/3-4

1569-7320

Barth

General

Jewish Studies

Lordship

Myanmar militarism

Philosophy, Theology & Science

Political Theology

Practical Theology

Religion & Society

Religious Studies

Social Sciences

Sociology of Religion

The oppressed

Theology and World Christianity

David Thang Moe

10.1163/15697320-12341554

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