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The Child as Solution: The Problem of the Superordinate-Subordinate Ordering of the Male-Female Relation in Barth's Theology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Elizabeth A. Frykberg
Elizabeth A. Frykberg
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In examining the similarities and differences between God and humanity in his analogia relalionis, Karl Barth correlates three I-Thou relations: God to Godself in similarity and difference (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit); humans to humans in similarity and difference (male and female); God to humanity and humanity to God in similarity and difference. For all three, Jesus Christ is the master analogue. Christ relates to God in a God-God ‘I-Thou’ relationship, to humanity in a human-human ‘I-Thou’ relationship, and God to humanity and humanity to God in a God-human ‘I-Thou’ relationship.

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Research Article
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Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 47 , Issue 3 , August 1994 , pp. 327 - 354
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Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1994

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