The Holy Ghost and the Christian Life

by Karl Barth

  • Year 1930
  • Type Essay
  • Genre theology
  • Tradition Reformed
  • Original language German

For For readers interested in Barth's doctrine of the Spirit and his debate with Augustine and Catholic theology on grace; short but dense. Not a first book.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
2 of 5 worth a look
For the researcher
4 of 5 important
Difficulty
4 of 5 hard

Karl Barth's lecture on the Holy Spirit as Creator, Reconciler and Redeemer of the Christian life, printed with a lecture by his brother Heinrich.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 4 of 5
  • Scriptural 3 of 5
  • Experiential 2 of 5
  • Sociological 1 of 5
  • Historical 2 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

A short book published by Chr. Kaiser in Munich in 1930 (105 pages), containing a lecture by Karl Barth and one by his brother, the philosopher Heinrich Barth. Karl Barth's lecture treats the Holy Spirit as Creator, Reconciler and Redeemer and asks how the Christian life is God's work and not a human possession, in conversation with Augustine and with Roman Catholic teaching on grace. R. Birch Hoyle translated Karl Barth's part as The Holy Ghost and the Christian Life (London: Frederick Muller, 1938).

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