ISSN:
0036-9306
Source:
Cambridge Journals Digital Archives
Topics:
Theology and Religious Studies
Notes:
The doctrine of predestination is commonly regarded as the normative dogma of Reformed or Calvinistic theology —but the contemporary demand for Christocentric theology is held to prove that this norm is not fully Christian. The impressive critical analysis of Karl Barth, for example, shows the Reformed doctrine of predestination, especially as it is worked out in the centuries following the Reformation, to be reduced to ‘double predestination’. This unscriptural teaching, Barth argues, derives from the misplacement of the doctrine in Reformed theology, since its proper position (Stellung) in dogmatics is in the context of Christology, and ‘not directly following the doctrine of God’.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0036930600008887
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