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This Book Offers A Fresh And Up-to-date Account Of The Ethical Thought Of One Of The Twentieth Century's Greatest Theologians: Karl Barth. The Author Seeks To Recover Barth's Ethics From Some Widespread Misunderstandings, And Also Presents A Picture Of Them As A Whole. Drawing On Recently Published Sources, Dr Biggar Construes The Ethics Of The Church Dogmatics As It Might Have Been Had Barth Lived To Complete It - Not Only Separately In Each Of Its Three Constituent Dimensions But Also In Its Dynamic, Coinherent Integrity. However, The Hastening That Waits Is More Than Apology And Description. For It Recommends To Contemporary Christian Ethics The Theological Rigour With Which Barth Expounds The Good Life In Terms Of The Living Presence Of God-in-christ To His Creatures; His Conception Of Right Human Action As That Which Is Able To Hasten In The Service Of Humanity Precisely By Waiting Prayerfully Upon God; And His Discriminate Openness To Moral Wisdom Outside Of The Christian Church. Among The Particular Topics Treated Are: The Concepts Of Human Freedom And Of Created Moral Order; Moral Norms And Their Relation To Individual Vocation; The Relative Ethical Roles Of The Bible, The

Author

Biggar, Nigel

Publisher

Oxford: Clarendon Press ; New York: Oxford University Press

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780198264576

Subjects

Religion, Philosophy, History