Respected scholar John Webster explores Barth's ethical thinking in a variety of his writings, including Barth's treatments of original sin, hope, and freedom in his famous Church Dogmatics, and he demonstrates Barth's concern to spell out how divine grace shapes and restores human agency. Other chapters discuss the missionary activity of the church in relation to Barth's remarkable treatment of the prophetic office of Christ and draw a contrast between Barth and Luther in matters of moral anthropology. Many of the studies included here introduce posthumous texts by Barth which have so far received little attention but which substantially revise the received views of Barth's thinking about ethics and human action.
