Karl Barth's moral thought / Gerald McKenny.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKenny, Gerald P., author.

Series:

Oxford studies in theological ethics.

Oxford studies in theological ethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian ethics.

Barth, Karl, 1886-1968. Ethik--English.

Barth, Karl.

Ethik (Barth, Karl).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Gerald McKenny follows Barth's efforts to present God's grace as a moral norm in his treatments of divine commands, moral reasoning, responsibility, and agency.

Contents:

Cover

Karl Barth's Moral Thought

Copyright

Preface

Acknowledgments

Contents

Abbreviations

1: Karl Barth's Theological Ethics

The Subject Matter of Theological Ethics

God for Us

God's Command as Requirement

Human Action as Correspondence to Grace

General and Special Ethics

Grace, Command, and Creation

Creation as External Ground of the Covenant

Covenant as Internal Ground of Creation

Summary

Conclusion

2: The Command of God as a Moral Norm

What Makes the Command of God a Moral Norm

Theological Ethics and Moral Philosophy

The Problem

Theological Ethics and Moral Philosophy in Conflict

Theological Ethics and Moral Philosophy in Conversation

Barth, Kant, and the Two Circles

Being the Answer and Giving the Answer

Explicit and Implicit Attestation

3: The Command of God as a Morally Binding Norm

The Command of God and Morally Good Action

God's Goodness and Human Goodness

God's Command as Both the Question of the Good and Its Answer

The Command of God as Morally Binding

False Grounds of Obligation

"God for Us" as the Ground of Obligation

4: The Continuity of God's Commands

The Command of God as Event: General Ethics

The Command of God as Mandatum Concretissimum

The Formal Consistency of God's Commands in General Ethics

The Command of God as History: Special Ethics

The Material Constancy of God's Commands in Special Ethics

The Material Constancy of God's Commands: The Determinate Spheres

The Microsphere of Life as a Test Case of Continuity

5: Hearing God's Command

Knowledge of God's Commands

Knowledge of God's Command in Special Ethics

Knowledge of God's Command in General Ethics

Summary.

Rational Deliberation in the Encounter with God's Command

Moral Reflection as Human Deliberation Coram Deo

Human Reasons and Divine Decisions

A Community of Mutual Address and Accountability

6: Responsibility and the Moral Subject

Responsibility: What and Why?

Responsibility in Barth's Ethics and in Modern Ethics

Making Us Responsible by Taking Responsibility for Us

Responsibility and the Covenant of Grace

Three Determinations

God's Responsibility and Ours

Accountability and the Imputability of Actions

The Priority of Accountability to Imputability

Imputability as Condition for Accountability

Liability and Its Limits

The Problem of Liability

Barth's Limited Liability

7: Divine Action and Human Action

Stating the Problem

Human Action as the Agent's Action

Divine Miracles and Creaturely Acts

The Interaction of Divine and Human Acts

The Continuity of Human Action

The Holy Spirit and the Continuity of Human Action

An Alternative to Virtue Ethics

A Fully Human Moral Agent

Divine and Human Action in the Covenant of Grace

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-266029-2

0-19-193774-6

0-19-266028-4

OCLC:

1263874245