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Theory and Praxis in Theology 'after' Karl Barth:

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Theory and Praxis in Theology 'after' Karl Barth:

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Eberhard Jüngel and Helmut Gollwitzer on Socialism and Solidarity

W. Travis McMaken

Leiden

Brill

Some important thinkers have treated Liberation Theology and "Barthian" Theology as incompatible, understanding the latter as an impediment to self-consciously contextual theological approaches. But some proponents of Barth's theology argue that it is contextual in important ways, and therefore a helpful resource for doing public theology. One way to redescribe the common complaint at the core of all these criticisms, and a way that relates those criticisms to liberation theology more generally, is by saying that they all pertain to the relationship between theory and praxis. The purpose of this article then is to address the relation between theory and praxis in the theologies of two significant practitioners of theology 'after' Karl Barth-Helmut Gollwitzer and Eberhard Jüngel-in part by examining their understanding of the relationship between Christianity and socialism. Some important thinkers have treated Liberation Theology and "Barthian" Theology as incompatible, understanding the latter as an impediment to self-consciously contextual theological approaches. But some proponents of Barth's theology argue that it is contextual in important ways, and therefore a helpful resource for doing public theology. One way to redescribe the common complaint at the core of all these criticisms, and a way that relates those criticisms to liberation theology more generally, is by saying that they all pertain to the relationship between theory and praxis. The purpose of this article then is to address the relation between theory and praxis in the theologies of two significant practitioners of theology 'after' Karl Barth-Helmut Gollwitzer and Eberhard Jüngel-in part by examining their understanding of the relationship between Christianity and socialism.

2019

432-448

International Journal of Public Theology

13/4

1569-7320

Eberhard Jüngel

Helmut Gollwitzer

Karl Barth

political theology

praxis

socialism

theology

theory

W. Travis McMaken

10.1163/15697320-12341587

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