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Letters of the Divine Word: The Perfections of God in Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics is unavailable, but you can change that!

The introduction locates Barth’s doctrine of the divine perfections within the unfolding logic of the Church Dogmatics and then surveys the state of Barth scholarship on this doctrine. Chapters one through four provide focused analysis of each of the four sections of Barth’s doctrine of the perfections, pausing at various points to address relevant debates within broader Barth scholarship....

This tension in Barth’s thought on grace finds some relief in his doctrine of election, where Barth associates grace not with the divine essence understood apart from election, as seems to be the case here in II/1, but with God as he has determined himself to be in Jesus Christ.24 Thus, it is grace which is ‘the beginning of all the ways and works of God’ ad extra.25 As ‘a spontaneous opus internum ad extra of the trinitarian God’, election always has ‘the character of grace’.26 It is this qualification
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