Karl Barth
in Conversation 3/4
DV0151
New College
University of Edinbugh
Winter Semester 2006
Course Manager: 
Dr. John C. McDowell
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1. Reading Karl Barth Today - Conversational Theologian
Reading 1 - John C. McDowell, 'Theology as Conversational Event:  Karl Barth, the Ending of "Dialogue" and the Beginning of "Conversation"', Modern Theology 19.4 (2003), 483-509
Supplemental Reading - John Webster
2. Ending and Beginning Conversation:  Barth's 'Prophetic' Word (2nd ed. Roemerbrief)
Lecture 1 -
3. Being Spoken to:  Listening to Scripture (CD, I)
4. Conversations and Conflict:  Barth and Brunner
Lecture 2 Part 1 - The Krisis of Liberalism
Lecture 3
Lecture 4
Seminar 1 Discussion Questions
Lecture 2 Part 2 - Disruptive Grace
Seminar 2 Discussion Questions
Please note that the Barth-Brunner book has gone missing from NC library - copies are now available for photocopying from the School office, and the library offprint cabinet
Seminar 3 Discussion Questions
5. Critical Conversations with the Reformed Tradition: The Electing God
Seminar 4 Discussion Questions
Lecture 5
Seminar 5 Discussion Questions
6. People in Conversation:  Theological Anthropology (CD, III.2)
Lecture 6
Seminar 6 Discussion Questions
7. The God of Salvation(CD, IV)
Lecture 7
Seminar 7 Discussion Questions
8. Karl Barth and The Practice of Hope
Lecture 8 Part 1
Seminar 8 Discussion Questions
9. Critical Conversations in Our World:  Barth and Socialist-Style Politics
Lecture 9
Seminar 9 Discussion Questions
Lecture 8 Part 2 - Question Reponses
Supplementary Reading:  John C. McDowell, 'Enfleshing a Phantom Figure:  Timothy Gorringe's Contextualised Barth'
Supplemental Reading - John W. Robbins, 'Karl Barth', The Trinity Review (Feb. 1998)
Course Past Exam Papers (2002-3)
(2004-5)
Please note that the lecture here uploaded is planned as part of the introduction for a forthcoming book - hence there are references to 'other chapters', etc.
Lecture Appendices
Quote concerning the 'German Christians'
Supplementary Reading: 
The supplementary reading is ch 5 of John C. McDowell, Hope in Barth's Eschatology (Ashgate, 2000). 
Supplementary Reading:  Review of JW Hart, Barth Vs. Brunner
Reading:  John C. McDowell, 'Barth, Brunner, and the Subjectivity of Christian Hope'
Reading:  John C. McDowell, 'Karl Barth's Having No-Thing to Hope For'
Course Essays