Finality of the Gospel

Kaitlyn Dugan, Ph.D. (2022, Aberdeen), is Managing Director of the Center for Barth Studies, Princeton Theological Seminary. Her dissertation develops a systematic theology of death informed by and in conversation with both New Testament Pauline apocalyptic and Karl Barth.Philip G. Ziegler, Th.D. (2002, Toronto) is Professor of Christian Dogmatics at the University of Aberdeen. Researching and writing in the field of modern theology, his publications include Militant Grace: The Apocalyptic Turn and the Future of Christian Theology (Baker, 2018).

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionKaitlyn Dugan and Philip G. Ziegler1 The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning? Barth’s Eschatology as a Guide to the PerplexedChristoph Schwöbel2 Eschatology and Gospel in the Time of ExpectationKenneth Oakes3 The Custody of Hope—The Resurrection of the Dead and Christian ExistenceSusan Eastman4 “The Day Is at Hand”—Barth’s Interpretation of Pauline Eschatology in the RömerbriefJohn M.G. Barclay5 The Idolatrous Self and the Eikon—The Possibility of True WorshipGrant Macaskill6 The Finality of the Gospel—Barth’s Römerbrief  on Romans 9–11Beverly Roberts Gaventa7 Paul’s Account of the Future: A Case Study in Pauline DogmaticsDouglas A. Campbell8 Redemption of This World—Reflections on Eschatology in Light of Barth’s Dogmatic Lectures in Münster (1925–1926)Christophe Chalamet9 “Standing on the Boundary, Where Now and Yet Then Touch Each Other”—Barth on Theodicy and EschatologyChristiane Tietz10 The Ethics of Resisting and Accepting Death in Karl Barth’s TheologyNancy J. Duff11 The First and Final “No”—The Finality of the Gospel and the Old EnemyPhilip G. ZieglerBibliographyIndex

"[T]his volume offers a fascinating variety of insights into both Barth’s theology and its legacy, as well as the eschatological dimensions of the biblical witness and its salience for both the academy and church." Jim West Zwinglius Redivivus, 30-02-2022.