The Defeat of Satan - Karl Barth's Three-Agent Account of Salvation

This book offers an innovative, critical, and constructive exploration of Barth-s theology, one which demonstrates the radicality of his thought and which underscores the continued contribution he might make to theological reflection on a central element of the Christian tradition.Declan Kelly uncovers the promise of viewing Barth-s account of salvation as a -three-agent drama--a drama involving God, humanity, and anti-God powers. Kelly demonstrates and examines Barth-s cosmological portrayal of God-s saving event as a defeat of the lordship of Satan in the cosmos-and, bound up with this, as an ending of God-s -left handed- activity-and as the bringing into existence of a new creation under the rule of God-s right hand. Barth-s doctrines of election, the atonement, and the resurrection receive a fresh reading as the book explores his apocalyptic grasp of God-s eschatological deed of salvation and as it puts forward the claim-with and against Barth-that the climax of this deed of salvat