Crisis and Reorientation

​Christine Svinth-Værge Põder teaches Systematic Theology at the Univeristy of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is the author of Doxological Hiddenness. The Fundamental Theological Significance of Prayer in Karl Barth’s Work, (2009), and editor of Mellem tiderne - fem dialektiske teologer, (2015). Sigurd Baark teaches Systematic Theology at the Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is the author of The Affirmations of Reason: on Karl Barth’s Speculative Theology (2018).

• 1. Crisis and Reorientation – Introduction.- 2. Karl Barth’s Performative Theology: Context and Rhetorics in Der Römerbrief 1922.- 3. “As a tangent touching a circle”: Karl Barth and dialectical theologians rethinking time after 1918.- 4. Prophecy as a political–theological category in Barth’s Römerbrief?.- 5. From Answers to Questions: Barth and Thurneysen on Dostoyevsky.- 6. The Positive Role of Culture in Barth and Tillich’s Discussion of the Paradox in 1923.- 7. An Apocalyptic Tone: Karl Barth’s Der Römerbrief  between neo-Kantian and hermeneutic paradigms of orientation.- 8. Revisiting the crisis theology of Karl Barth in light of Søren Kierkegaard in a new time of crisis.- 9. The Voice of the Preacher: Literary and Rhetorical Aspects of Der Römerbrief.- 10. A Literary Reception of Karl Barth’s Römerbrief: On Barthianism in John Updike’s Roger’s Version.- 11. “Theology After Gulag and Beyond”: How Can Karl Barth’s Theology Contribute to Reorientation in the Contemporary European Crisis? A post-Soviet Case.