A Study Day: ‘Paul’s Letter to the Romans, and its Historical Influence, through Luther and Barth’
Date: 09 June 2012 (10am to 3pm)
Andrew Shanks and Peter Bellamy-Knights
‘Paul’s Letter to the Romans, and its Historical Influence, through Luther and Barth’
When Martin Luther launched his epoch-making theological challenge to the church of his day, he appealed pretty much above all to the authority of St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans. And again, when Karl Barth, in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, launched his epoch-making theological challenge to the prevailing ethos of German Liberal Protestantism, it was in the form of a commentary on the same text. In this study day, led by two members of the Manchester Cathedral team, we want to look at the revolutionary potential influence of St. Paul’s thought, as illustrated by these two classic examples of its impact. To what extent are the explosive implications that first Luther, and then, in another way, Barth saw in Paul’s text really there, from the outset? And what might it imply also for our own day?
(Note: you will need to bring, or go out and get, your own lunch.)
Further Info
Venue:
Refectory
