Karl Barth's pneumatological doctrine of baptism
Karl Barth wrote the doctrine of baptism twice-<I>The Teaching of the Church Regarding Baptism</I> (1943) and <I>Church Dogmatics </I>IV/4: <I>Fragment </I>(1967). A number of differences can be found between them, despite their shared anti-paedobaptism. The characteristics of the first work can be described in this way. 1. Jesus Christ is the sole principle of baptism. 2. As a sacrament, baptism is a means of grace and indirectly an act of Christ. 3. The meaning of baptism is the cognition of salvation. Recognition of the work of Christ presupposes an ability to understand and respond. Therefore, the baptism of infants cannot be justified. Barth's first work on baptism can be denoted as being a christological, sacramental and cognitive doctrine. More briefly, it can be entitled primarily a christological doctrine of baptism. The characteristics of the second work can be summed up in the following terms. 1. The work of Jesus Christ is the objective historical ground of baptism and baptism with the Spirit is the subjective existential ground of baptism. There is no faith in Christ without baptism with the Spirit, and there is no baptism with water without faith in Christ. Hence, the work of the Spirit in man
Jun, Sung-Yong
Philosophy
Karl Barth's pneumatological doctrine of baptism. Karl Barth wrote the doctrine of baptism twice-<I>The Teaching of the Church Regarding Baptism</I> (1943) and <I>Church Dogmatics </I>IV/4: <I>Fragment </I>(1967). A number of differences can be found between them, despite their shared anti-paedobaptism. The characteristics of the first work can be described in this way. 1. Jesus Christ is the sole principle of baptism. 2. As a sacrament, baptism is a means of grace and indirectly an act of Christ. 3. The meaning of baptism is the cognition of salvation. Recognition of the work of Christ presupposes an ability to understand and respond. Therefore, the baptism of infants cannot be justified. Barth's first work on baptism can be denoted as being a christological, sacramental and cognitive doctrine. More briefly, it can be entitled primarily a christological doctrine of baptism. The characteristics of the second work can be summed up in the following terms. 1. The work of Jesus Christ is the objective historical ground of baptism and baptism with the Spirit is the subjective existential ground of baptism. There is no faith in Christ without baptism with the Spirit, and there is no baptism with water without faith in Christ. Hence, the work of the Spirit in man
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