Fully Alive: The Glory of God and the Human Creature in Karl Barth, Hans Urs Von Balthasar and Theological Exegesis of Scripture

by Jason A. Fout

Book Overview

Numerous contemporary theologians depict divine glory as overwhelming to or competitive with human agency. In effect, this makes humanity a threat to God's glory, and causes God's glory to remain opaque to human enquiry and foreign to human life.

Karl Barth and Hans Urs von Balthasar have avoided this tendency, instead depicting God's glory as enabling people to participate in glorifying God. Nevertheless both accounts fall short of their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567672042
• ISBN13: 9780567672049
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"