Abstract
This article demonstrates Calvin’s impact upon Barth’s ethics through a close reading of Barth’s MÃnster lectures on ethics. Already in these early lectures Barth insisted on the coherence of dogmatic and ethical reflection, and developed the basic structure and some characteristic themes of his mature ethical reflection in the Church Dogmatics. By showing the ways in which Barth was influenced by Calvin in these formative first ethics lectures the case is made that a thorough understanding of Calvin’s theology is necessary for a correct appreciation of Barth’s ethics and of his theology as a whole.
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