Election, Atonement, and the Holy Spirit

This book examines the doctrines of election and atonement in Karl Barth''s Church Dogmatics, taking up Barth''s own challenge to his reader to surpass his argument and offer a better typological interpretation of the cultic texts. Barth''s radical re-working of Calvin''s doctrine of election is one of the most important developments in twentieth-century theology. Christ synthesizes for Barth a pa...