칼 바르트의 삼위일체론에 관한 비평적 고찰 ; 필리오꾸에 교리를 중심으로 = Critical Considerations on Karl Barth`s Understanding of the Trinity: Focusing on the Filioque

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The prevailing Reformed advocate of the filioque in the 20th century is none the other than Karl Barth, who is usually invoked as the key theologian motivating the current renaissance of western-Trinitarian thinking. Barth is widely known for claiming that revelation itself is the root of the doctrine of the Trinity. Indeed, Barth intentionally places the doctrine of the Trinity at the beginning of his monumental work, that is, Church Dogmatics so that it stands as the basic methodological principle for the rest of his entire doctrines. This intentional construction is based on Barth`s resistance awareness against natural theology`s evils exposed by two world wars. In other words, he attempted to block any kind of non-theological approach, namely, natural theology to the knowledge of God that is inherent so much in the western tradition. Here Barth employs the filioque systematically. While Augustine systematizes the filioque to enunciate the divine being of the inner trinitarian life and especially the distinctive relations between the Son and the Holy Spirit, Barth practically and systematically uses it to support his argument of the Trinity. This exploration is undertaken in particular in relation to Barth`s treatment of doctrine of the Trinity. In focusing upon it, I will explore how Barth deals with the Holy Spirit and the filioque within the Christological-Trinitarian frame. Then, I will highlight some evaluations of his pneumatological perspectives and contend that Barth`s Trinitarian theology, despite its achievement, has presented in itself typical western difficulties in conceiving the personhood and work of the Holy Spirit.