Barth

pp. 57-77

in: , No longer the same, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

Abstract

If Schleiermacher is the father of modern liberal Protestant theology, Karl Barth is the father of the reaction against that theology.¹ Throughout his long career, he sought to counteract the theological dominance of the modern self by restoring to the place of authority God as divine Other. Whereas Schleiermacher grounds Christian theological reflection in immediate interior experience, Barth seeks to ground theology upon divine revelation, specifically that which Christianity recognizes in the biblical texts.