Into the Far Country: Karl Barth and the Modern Subject

by Scott A. Kirkland

Into the Far Country is an investigation of Karl Barth's response to modernity as seen through the prism of the subject under judgment. By suggesting that Barth offers a form of theological resistance to the Enlightenment's construal of human subjectivity as "absolute," this piece offers a way of talking about the formation of human persons as the process of being kenotically laid bare before the cross and resurrection of Christ. It does...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1506401376
• ISBN13: 9781506401379
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"