{"id":6151,"date":"2023-06-23T08:48:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T13:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=6151"},"modified":"2023-06-23T08:50:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T13:50:36","slug":"new-book-on-karl-barth-and-crisis-reorientation-includes-updike-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2023\/06\/23\/new-book-on-karl-barth-and-crisis-reorientation-includes-updike-chapter\/","title":{"rendered":"New book on Karl Barth and crisis-reorientation includes Updike chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Crisis and Reorientation: Karl Barth’s R\u00f6merbrief in the Cultural and Intellectual Context of Post WWI Europe<\/a><\/em>, edited by Christine Svinth-V\u00e6rge P\u00f5der and Sigurd Baark, features a chapter by Bent Flemming Nielsen on “A Literary Reception of Karl Barth’s R\u00f6merbrief<\/em>: On Barthianism in John Updike’s Roger’s Version<\/em>.”<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like the editors, Nielsen teaches in the Section of Systematic Theology, Faculty of Theology, at the University of Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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American author John Hoyer Updike (1932\u20132009) once said, \u201cKarl Barth was my hero among theologians.\u201d Updike found Barth\u2019s early writings from Der R\u00f6merbrief<\/em> (1922) until Fides Quaerens Intellectum<\/em> (1931) especially interesting. Moreover, Barthian motives also played a role in Updike\u2019s novels. This becomes most obvious in Roger\u2019s Version<\/em> (1986), a novel about a theological professor, Roger Lambert. The novel addresses Barthian topics such as revelation and knowledge of God in modernity, narrated through vivid examples of human arrogance, guilt, and infidelity. In addition to presenting a body of Updike\u2019s conscious stylistic writing, this chapter delves into Barthian theological perspectives in Roger\u2019s Version<\/em> and Updike\u2019s personal convictions. The chapter emphasizes mainly the dialectic \u201cwisdom of death\u201d as a key to interpreting the book. (The orality of the presentation has been retained to some extent.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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