This paper is an exploration of Barth’s dialectical, analogical understanding of the mediation of revelation. According to Barth’s understanding of revelation, the Triune God reveals Himself in terms of giving Himself as an object to the creaturely medium.Barth argues that the reality of the Triune God bears a dialectical, analogical relation to such creaturely medium. In Barth’s dialectical, analogical understanding of the mediation of revelation, we find both an explicit meaning and an implicit one with regard to the role of the creaturely medium.Its explicit meaning is that in Barth’s dialectical, analogical understanding of the medium of revelation, the medium plays a role of the thick shield which protects the religious self’s domestication of God’s mystery and difference. This amounts to the passive role. Furthermore, we argue that in Barth’s analogical, dialectical understanding of the mediation of revelation, the mediation of human senses, perception or conception, and language or signs plays a very active role. Thus, we assert that such an emphasis on the mediation of revelation works for the encouragement of human freedom and responsibility. Such an understanding seems to provide the opportunity to rethink a certain stereotyped criticism against Barth’s theology, that is, Barth’s theology too much emphasizes divine transcendence so as to eclipse or reduce human freedom and responsibility.To support such an argument, we try to explicate Barth’s shift from what Barth calls “religion” to “the Word of God” from the perspective of the mediation of revelation.Such a perspective discloses that Barth’s transition is the journey from the mediation of intuition and self-consciousness to the mediation of senses, concepts, and language or signs. In this respect, Barth moves to the direction to stress the thicker mediation of revelation which means the emphasis of human hermeneutical and responsible activity in the event of revelation. However, by pointing to the radical limitation of human senses, concepts and language or signs as the medium of revelation, Barth’s analogical,dialectical understanding seems to offer the space for invoking the operation of God’s grace through the mediate activity of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. Therefore,Barth’s analogical, dialectical doctrine of revelation works for the co-emphasis of both the activity of divine grace through the mediate action of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit and human freedom and responsibility through the encouragement of the activity of the mediation of human senses, concepts, and language or signs.
This paper is an exploration of Barth’s dialectical, analogical understanding of the mediation of revelation. According to Barth’s understanding of revelation, the Triune God reveals Himself in terms of giving Himself as an object to the creaturely medium.Barth argues that the reality of the Triune God bears a dialectical, analogical relation to such creaturely medium. In Barth’s dialectical, analogical understanding of the mediation of revelation, we find both an explicit meaning and an implicit one with regard to the role of the creaturely medium.Its explicit meaning is that in Barth’s dialectical, analogical understanding of the medium of revelation, the medium plays a role of the thick shield which protects the religious self’s domestication of God’s mystery and difference. This amounts to the passive role. Furthermore, we argue that in Barth’s analogical, dialectical understanding of the mediation of revelation, the mediation of human senses, perception or conception, and language or signs plays a very active role. Thus, we assert that such an emphasis on the mediation of revelation works for the encouragement of human freedom and responsibility. Such an understanding seems to provide the opportunity to rethink a certain stereotyped criticism against Barth’s theology, that is, Barth’s theology too much emphasizes divine transcendence so as to eclipse or reduce human freedom and responsibility.To support such an argument, we try to explicate Barth’s shift from what Barth calls “religion” to “the Word of God” from the perspective of the mediation of revelation.Such a perspective discloses that Barth’s transition is the journey from the mediation of intuition and self-consciousness to the mediation of senses, concepts, and language or signs. In this respect, Barth moves to the direction to stress the thicker mediation of revelation which means the emphasis of human hermeneutical and responsible activity in the event of revelation. However, by pointing to the radical limitation of human senses, concepts and language or signs as the medium of revelation, Barth’s analogical,dialectical understanding seems to offer the space for invoking the operation of God’s grace through the mediate activity of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. Therefore,Barth’s analogical, dialectical doctrine of revelation works for the co-emphasis of both the activity of divine grace through the mediate action of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit and human freedom and responsibility through the encouragement of the activity of the mediation of human senses, concepts, and language or signs.
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