KARL BARTH. THE RESTORATION OF PROTESTANT ORTHODOXY

Abstract

 Karl Barth represents the renewal of the evangelical theological tradition attending to its Lutheran and Calvinistic roots and against what he understands as the degradation of that tradition in the so called Liberal Theology prevailing in the last years of the XIXth century. His Letter to the Romans supposed a breaking point that changed the attention from a cultural to an existential theology under the influence of Kierkegaard. The critic of the catholic doctrine of analogy as a basis for a rational or natural theology represents also a vindication of supernaturalism as a point of depart for the understanding of human existence, which we cannot understand without the concepts of sin, repentance and salvation. On the other side the very essence of God is not to be reached but in the shock that supposes its irruption in history as revelation and pardon