Karl Barth’s Ontology of Divine Grace

God's Decision is God's Being

by Tyler J. Frick

Book cover: Karl Barth’s Ontology of Divine Grace

Extent: 233 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Philosophy, Religious Studies

Series: Religion in Philosophy and Theology

Series volume number: 113

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(September 2021)

ISBN: 9783161595585

9.09 x 6.06 inches

Price: $118.00

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Karl Barth’s rigorous and singular focus on God’s reconciling and revealing activity in Jesus Christ yields a profoundly compelling ontological vision. In this study, Tyler J. Frick explores Barth’s understanding of God’s being and particularly Barth’s contention in Church Dogmatics II/1 that God is essentially gracious in God’s original and proper triune life. The author argues that Barth’s doctrine of election expounded in Church Dogmatics II/2 provides Barth with the sufficient conceptual framework to ensure that there is no bifurcation between what God does in the economy of grace and who and what God is as triune. This analysis demonstrates the Trinitarian consequences present in Barth’s later volumes, which arise from Barth’s insistence that the doctrine of election is the eternal decision in which God graciously elects Godself to become humanity’s God in the covenant-fulfilling existence of Jesus Christ.

  • By (author) Tyler J Frick