Worship as primary ethical act : Barth on Romans 12

dc.contributor.authorHavenga, Marthinus Johannesen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-02T13:18:37Z
dc.date.available2020-04-02T13:18:37Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.descriptionCITATION: Havenga, M. J. 2020. Worship as primary ethical act : Barth on Romans 12. HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, 7(1):a5824, doi:10.4102/hts.v76i1.5824.en_ZA
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at https://hts.org.za
dc.descriptionPublication of this article was funded by the Stellenbosch University Open Access Fund
dc.description.abstractFollowing the centenary year of the publication of the first edition of Karl Barth’s Der Römerbrief, this article attempts to look at what a contemporary South African audience could potentially learn from Barth’s reading of Romans 12. This article begins with a few preliminary remarks on the reading of Barth in both apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa, and asks whether his theology still has any role to play in current theological and ethical discourses (amidst calls that theology should be decolonised). After arguing that Barth might still have ‘a’ contribution to make (as we further develop our own theologies), this article provides an in-depth exposition and analysis of Barth’s reading of Romans 12. Here it is shown how, in his commentary on this chapter (under the heading ‘The Problem of Ethics’), Barth maintains that worship, that is, the offering of our bodies as ‘living sacrifices’ to God, should be seen as the primary ethical act, which precedes and renders possible all other secondary ethical conduct. This is then followed by the last section of this article, which explores the possible meaning and relevance of Barth’s insights for life in present-day South Africa.en_ZA
dc.description.urihttps://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/view/5824
dc.description.versionPublisher's version
dc.format.extent7 pages
dc.identifier.citationHavenga, M. J. 2020. Worship as primary ethical act : Barth on Romans 12. HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, 7(1):a5824, doi:10.4102/hts.v76i1.5824en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2072-8050 (online)
dc.identifier.issn0259-9422 (print)
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.4102/hts.v76i1.5824
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/107651
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherAOSIS
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dc.subjectBarth, Karl, 1886-1968en_ZA
dc.subjectBible. Romans, XII -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.en_ZA
dc.titleWorship as primary ethical act : Barth on Romans 12en_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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