Karl Barth on the Trinity: A Family Resemblance

Timothy Bradshaw

doi:10.1017/S0036930600030520

Karl Barth on the Trinity: A Family Resemblance

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Timothy Bradshaw

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This article seeks to define one important way in which idealist thought, for which Edward Caird will serve as spokesman, can help us understand Barth's doctrine of the essential Trinity. It is hoped that this will in particular clarify the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, and help qualify some recent criticism levelled at Barth's teaching. The treatment falls into two parts, the first expository, the second analytical.

Type: Research Article
Information: Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 39 , Issue 2 , May 1986 , pp. 145 - 164

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0036930600030520 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1986

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^{page 145 note 2} Ibid., p. 306.

^{page 145 note 3} Ibid., p. 324.

^{page 146 note 4} Ibid., p. 307.

^{page 146 note 5} Ibid., 2/1, section 28, pp. 257ff.

^{page 146 note 6} Ibid., section 30, pp. 351ff.

^{page 146 note 7} Ibid., section 31, pp. 440ff.

^{page 146 note 8} Ibid., p. 301.

^{page 146 note 9} Ibid., p. 303.

^{page 146 note 10} Ibid. Therefore ‘God must not only be unconditioned but, in the absoluteness in which he can and will also be conditioned.… This ability, proved and manifested to us in this action, constitutes this Freedom’.

^{page 147 note 11} Ibid., 1/1, p. 381.

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^{page 148 note 14} Ibid.

^{page 148 note 15} Ibid.

^{page 148 note 16} Ibid.

^{page 148 note 17} Ibid.

^{page 148 note 18} C.D. 4/1, p. 185.

^{page 148 note 19} Ibid.

^{page 149 note 20} Ibid., p. 192.

^{page 149 note 21} Ibid., p. 209.

^{page 149 note 22} Ibid.

^{page 149 note 23} Ibid., pp. 209ff.

^{page 149 note 24} C.D., 2/1, p. 57.

^{page 149 note 25} C.D., 1/1, p. 316.

^{page 150 note 26} The ‘relative clarity’, in the opinion of Williams, R. D., of Barth's treatment of Father and Son, is itself put in question by the apparent failure of the same method to produce an adequate doctrine of the Spirit’. Karl Barth — Studies of his Theological Methods, ed. Sykes, S. W., p. 171.Google Scholar

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^{page 150 note 28} C.D., 1/1, p. 330.

^{page 151 note 29} Ibid., p. 331.

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^{page 151 note 31} Ibid.

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^{page 152 note 35} Ibid., p. 346.

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^{page 157 note 49} Ibid., p. 101 [My translations].

^{page 157 note 50} Ibid., pp. 101–2. Cf. Moltmann, , The Trinity and the Kingdom of God, p. 142.Google Scholar

^{page 157 note 51} Ibid.

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^{page 160 note 55} Op. cit., pp. 164ff.

^{page 160 note 56} Ibid., p. 182.

^{page 160 note 57} Ibid., pp. 185–6.

^{page 160 note 58} C.D., 2/2, p. 175.

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^{page 162 note 61} Ibid., p. 68.

^{page 162 note 62} In Sykes, op. cit., pp. 181ff.

^{page 163 note 63} Ibid., p. 181.

^{page 163 note 64} Ibid., pp. 181–2.

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^{page 163 note 66} Op. cit., pp. 175 and 184.

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