An Apocalyptic Tone: Karl Barth’s Der Römerbrief Between Neo-Kantian and Hermeneutic Paradigms of Orientation

Carsten Pallesen

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-27677-4_7

An Apocalyptic Tone: Karl Barth’s Der Römerbrief Between Neo-Kantian and Hermeneutic Paradigms of Orientation

Carsten Pallesen

Section of Systematic Theology

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Abstract

This contribution offers an exposition of the dialectics of grace in Karl Barth’s Der Römerbrief. What Paul Ricœur identifies as “an apocalyptic tone” in Paul is a fault line in philosophical and theological discourse on modernity which should guide an investigation into the dialectics of time and eternity in Der Römerbrief. The quarrel over the “tone” of philosophy that was invoked in Immanuel Kant and prominently resumed in Friedrich Nietzsche and Jacques Derrida is applied to the predominantly neo-Kantian orientation of Der Römerbrief as an occasion to re-consider Karl Barth’s diagnosis of the crisis of theology as the crisis of modernity.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Crisis and Reorientation : Karl Barth’s Römerbrief in the Cultural and Intellectual Context of Post WWI Europe
Editors	Christine Svinth-Værge Põder , Sigurd Baark
Number of pages	28
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date	2023
Pages	123 -151
Chapter	7
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-27676-7
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-27677-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27677-4_7
Publication status	Published - 2023

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Pallesen, C. (2023). An Apocalyptic Tone: Karl Barth’s Der Römerbrief Between Neo-Kantian and Hermeneutic Paradigms of Orientation. In C. Svinth-Værge Põder , & S. Baark (Eds.), Crisis and Reorientation: Karl Barth’s Römerbrief in the Cultural and Intellectual Context of Post WWI Europe (pp. 123 -151). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27677-4_7

An Apocalyptic Tone: Karl Barth’s Der Römerbrief Between Neo-Kantian and Hermeneutic Paradigms of Orientation. / Pallesen, Carsten.

Crisis and Reorientation: Karl Barth’s Römerbrief in the Cultural and Intellectual Context of Post WWI Europe . ed. / Christine Svinth-Værge Põder ; Sigurd Baark. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. p. 123 -151.

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