Product Description

This text looks at the pessimistic and optimistic route to God after death. The book looks at nihilism, the rejection of religion and moral principles, and offers hope in eschatology, the theology of death and a final destination. It examines the idea that there is a "void" and not a God, that death is a "strange and frightening journey".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2554095 in Books
• Published on: 2001-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 284 pages

Customer Reviews

Author's Summary
As Jürgen Moltmann has famously argued, hope makes a difference to life and practice. Tracing this through the writings of Karl Barth, this study endeavours to call into question the paucity of critical comment on Barth's eschatology, the theological soil from which his Christian hope grows. Failing to acknowledge and do justice to his distinctively christomorphic hope, then, misses something essential in Barth's theological perspective. Yet certain tensions are identified and questioned through interaction with the use of the genre of the tragic in George Steiner, Donald MacKinnon and Friedrich Nietzsche in particular.

Boldly going where Barth Studies have never Been Before
In the overcrowded world of Barth studies this one doesn't get lost in the crowd! This is a unique thesis - McDowell points out that eschatology and hope are central to what Barth is doing with his theology. Its not always an easy read, but definitely well worth persevering with. It has revolutionised my understanding of Barth.
Dr Helen K Bond, Aberdeen University