Dogmatica de Karl Barth

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CHAPTER XIII

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THE SUBJECT-MATTER AND PROBLEMS OF


THE DOCTRINE OF RECONCILIARON
57 THE WORK OF
GOD THE RECONCILER

The subject-matter, origin and conten of the message received


and proclaimed by the Christian community is at its heart the free
act of the faithfulness of God in which He takes the lost cause of
man, who has denied Him as Creator and in so doing
U ( C > o < ruined him-self as creature, and makes it His own in Jess
Christ, carrying it through to its goal and in that way
maintaining and manifesting His own glory in the world.
i. GOD WITH US
We enter that sphere of Christian knowledge in which we have to do
with the heart of the message received by and laid upon the Christian
community and therefore with the heart of the Church's dogmatics: that is
to say, with the heart of its subject-matter, origin and conten. It has a
circumference, the doctrine of creation and the doctrine of the last
things, the redemption and consummation. But the covenant fulfilled
in the atonement is its centre. From this point we can and must see a
circumference. But we can see it only from this point. A mistaken or
deficient perception here would mean error or deficiency everywhere : the
weakening or obscuring of the message, the con-fession and
dogmatics as such. From this point either everything is clear and true
and helpful, or it is not so anywhere. This involves a high responsibility
in the task which now confronts us.
It would be possible and quite correct to describe the covenant
fulfilled in the work of reconciliation as the heart of the subject-matter of
Christian faith, of the origin of Christian love, of the conten of
Christian hope. But the faith and love and hope of the Christian community
and the Christians assembled in it live by the message received by and laid
upon them, not the reverse. And even if we tried to put them in the
forefront, we should have to lay the emphasis upon their ubject-matter,
origin and content, which are not immanent to them, and which do not
exhaust themselves in them. For Christian faith is ,'. with in, Christian
love is love through, and Christian hope is hope in
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