عنوان

Appreciative and Faithful?

Number

LA116937

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Appreciative and Faithful?

General Material Designation

[Article]

First Statement of Responsibility

Ximian Xu

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Leiden

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Brill

Text of Note

This article is intended to assess Karl Barth's appreciative use of Herman Bavinck's view of God's incomprehensibility in Church Dogmatics II/1. The main argument is that despite Barth's appreciative gesture, Barth in fact offers an unfaithful or mistaken reading of Bavinck's view. Whereas Bavinck makes God's knowability the presupposition of the divine incomprehensibility, Barth renders the veracious knowledge of God predicated upon God's incomprehensibility, which is in turn grounded in God's hiddenness. In any event, Barth's appreciative gesture toward Bavinck should not cover up their divergent lines of reasoning in demonstrating the doctrine of God's incomprehensibility. This article is intended to assess Karl Barth's appreciative use of Herman Bavinck's view of God's incomprehensibility in Church Dogmatics II/1. The main argument is that despite Barth's appreciative gesture, Barth in fact offers an unfaithful or mistaken reading of Bavinck's view. Whereas Bavinck makes God's knowability the presupposition of the divine incomprehensibility, Barth renders the veracious knowledge of God predicated upon God's incomprehensibility, which is in turn grounded in God's hiddenness. In any event, Barth's appreciative gesture toward Bavinck should not cover up their divergent lines of reasoning in demonstrating the doctrine of God's incomprehensibility.

Date of Publication

2019

Physical description

26-46

Title

Journal of Reformed Theology

Volume Number

13/1

International Standard Serial Number

1569-7312

Subject Term

God's hiddenness

Subject Term

God's incomprehensibility

Subject Term

God's knowability

Subject Term

Herman Bavinck

Subject Term

Karl Barth

Subject Term

revelation

Ximian Xu

Call Number

10.1163/15697312-01301009

Electronic name

p

[Article]

275578

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Y