Karl Barth on Jesus Christ, the Light of the World

The course will examine and interrogate Barth’s understanding:
1) that Jesus Christ not only enacts God’s reconciliation of the world with Himself, but also enacts the revelation of that reconciliation to His creatures;
2) that Jesus Christ lives today in the confession of faith;
3) that Jesus Christ as the Word of God, is the light of life. No other can rival His light, yet He enables His creatures to perceive other (extraordinary) words as true;
4) of the truths of creation;
5) of the relation between the reality of revelation and Christian knowledge of it;
6) of the victory of the revelation of Christ over the darkness of the world (and over the outdatedness of the world’s knowledge);
7) of the three forms of Christ’s coming again (i.e., Easter, the final coming, His coming as the Holy Spirit);
8) that the time in which we live, the time of His coming as the Holy Spirit, is the time of mission.