Without the contemplation of the Isenheim Altar, Karl Barth would not have achieved a certain theological breakthrough in this radical and precise manner. It can be assumed that his theological linguistic doctrine for the turn from the first to the second version of the commentary on the Letter to the Romans was promoted by the pictorial contemplation of the Isenheim Altar (caused by the disappointment about his theological teachers). The thesis is that Barth presented his theological metaphor of the "death line" (17 October 1920) in derivation of the "death wall" (17 April 1920) of the closed representation of the altar, which had previously been viewed by Grünewald, so that Barths with his Grünewald reception also and decisively initiated and carried out his theological reorientation.

Enthalten in:
Evangelische Theologie; 2020/2 Zweimonatsschrift (2020)

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Serie / Reihe: Evangelische Theologie

Personen: Dalferth, Ingolf U. (gefeierte Person) Marquard, Reiner

Schlagwörter: Theologie Politik Sprache Barth, Karl Grünewald, Matthias Isenheimer Altar