TY  - BOOK
AU  - Webb,Stephen H.
TI  - Re-figuring theology: the rhetoric of Karl Barth 
T2  - SUNY series in rhetoric and theology
SN  - 0585091277
AV  - BX4827.B3 W33 1991eb
U1  - 230/.044/092 20
PY  - 1991///
CY  - Albany, N.Y.
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Barth, Karl,
KW  - German language
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Christian Theology
KW  - Systematic
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-211) and index; 1. Reading Karl Barth -- Rhetoric and theology -- Readings of Karl Barth -- Barth and expressionism -- A closer look at the expressionist analogy -- 2. Toward a tropology -- Three theories of tropes -- Max Black on metaphor -- Paul Ricoeur and language -- Ricoeur and metaphor -- The tropics of Hayden White -- 3. Metaphor of crisis/crisis of metaphor -- Metaphors and models -- The origin of crisis -- The supporting cast -- The indirection of theology -- The crisis defined? -- The crisis of history and the history of crisis -- The crisis of crisis -- 4. Magic of the extreme -- A lesser trope? -- Nietzsche as exaggerator -- A necessary excess -- An other otherness -- A church destroyed -- The limits of extremity -- 5. Web of Irony -- The varieties of irony -- The ironology of Kierkegaard -- The irony of theology -- An ironic God -- An unstable corrective -- 6. Retreat and reconstruction: re-reading Barth today -- Retreat from rhetoric -- Another other -- Toward a reconstruction
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