Karl Barth's Ideas on the Economic and Immanent Trinity

By Robert Alan King

Karl Barth's Ideas on the Economic and Immanent Trinity by Robert Alan King is a booklet with over 3,700 words. This study examines and explains Barth's ideas about the Trinity as the starting point of all theological inquiry about God. It will take a look at how he finds what he refers to as "the problem of the Trinity" in God's revelation to humanity. The booklet will discuss how his three specific questions will help us discover God when examined in the witness of God's revelation as given to us in the pages of Scripture. In Barth's conclusion, this leads us to what we can know about the immanent Trinity by the economic Trinity of God revealing himself. Robert Alan King is an ordained minister through Calvary Chapel.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Robert Alan King
• Release date: Mar 14, 2016
• ISBN: 9781310393495

Robert Alan King

Robert Alan King is an ordained minister through Calvary Chapel who has written numerous theological and inspirational articles for a variety of publications, including Advocate, The Church Herald & Holiness Banner, Companions, The Priest, Proclaim, Pulpit Helps, Vista, War Cry, and Decision Magazine. He also has authored numerous printed books and dozens of eBooks.King has a Master of Arts Degree Sum Cum Laude in Psychology from Touro University Worldwide with an 4.0 institutional GPA, a Bachelor of Science Degree Cum Laude in Bible and Theology from Lee University with an 4.0 institutional GPA, and an Associate of Arts Degree with an emphasis in Science from Coastline Community College. He has a total of at least 256 units of education from universities, seminaries or colleges. This includes at least 130 units of Bible and theology related classes from Lee University, Calvary Chapel Bible College, and Chafer Theological Seminary.

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Karl Barth's Ideas on the Economic and Immanent Trinity

By Robert Alan King

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Published by King & Associates, Casa Grande, Arizona.

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Table of Contents

Introduction

The Three Questions of God's Self-Revealing

The Problems of the Trinity in God's Self-Revealing

The Economic God Conveys the Immanent God

Conclusion

Footnotes

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Introduction

When it comes to the doctrines of God and understanding who God is, Karl Barth insists that we must begin with the idea of the Trinity rather than introducing this at a later stage in our study.¹ This is why he placed this doctrine at the beginning of his theology unlike some other theologians.² Barth asserts that we can discover whom God is through the event of the triune God revealing himself to humanity in three ways of being. He sees the Trinity as the only legitimate answer to who this self-revealing God really