Karl Barth

God’s Revelation as «Sublation» of Religion

In these chapters of «Church Dogmatics», translated into Russian for the fi rst time, Karl Barth presents his ideas about the relationship between religion (or natural religiosity of human being) and Christian revelation. According to Barth, the Christian religion is the true religion, but it is so only because of the fact that the divine revelation, so to speak, «sublimes» the human religion.

Karl Barth on Religion and Revelation

The author regards Karl Barth’s theology of religion as a re-creation on a new level of traditional motifs of Calvinist theology, caused by a reaction to rationalism and progressivism of the liberal Protestantism. Particular attention is paid to Karl Barth’s ideas of the relationship between religion (or natural religiosity of human being) and Christian revelation. These ideas are interpreted not in form of theological exclusivism, but as a more complex position that combines various elements of exclusivism, inclusivism and pluralism.