Footnotes to a Theology : The Karl Barth Colloquium of 1972

Yet exactly the preoccupation of these men brings the current search for concreteness to a critical juncture, for they 4 INTRODUCTION are being asked now to show how to make sense of Jesus Christ in the midst of a culture and experience of the world come of age, whereas they ask theologians now to make sense of the culture and experience of that world come of age with due regard to the concrete pr [...] To the one the determinative object is the subject of Jesus Christ, the revelation of God to man and it is the progressive pene- tration into the mystery of Jesus Christ, so obvious in Barth's thought, which warrants that conviction. [...] To the others Barth's discovery of God's revolution and its acme - the resurrection of the dead and the establishment of God's kingdom on earth - precedes the discovery of Christ's centrality. [...] Since in love the old is overthrown by the doing of the new, this action marks the very dissolution of the course of the world (p.492f). [...] Easter time is the time of Jesus, "the time of the revelation of the mystery of the preceding time of the life and death of the man Jesus.