Word: barthe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which he is a leader (Ihud, meaning Union) is almost the only voice in Israel advocating cooperation with the Arabs. But Buber's main achievement lies in his tense, paradoxical, spiritual philosophy that has perhaps been as influential among Christian theologians, e.g., Reinhold Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, Karl Barth, as among Jews. A new book...
...appears in religion, as when man uses God merely for his peace of mind, or abstracts Him in complicated logical systems, or regards Him as so large and overpowering that He is out of reach. Buber refuses to see God as the "wholly Other" of Swiss Theologian Karl Barth or the "Mysterium Tremendum" of German Theologian Rudolph Otto. "Of course God is the 'wholly Other,' " Buber writes, "but He is also the wholly Same, the wholly Present. Of course He is the Mysterium Tremendum that appears and overthrows, but He is also the mystery of the self-evident...
Refusal to inform solely on grounds of conscience and moral duty has been defended most eloquently by Barth. "A witness who feels certain that the persons with whom he was associated in the party were as idealistic and misguided as himself, and were as innocent of espionage or sabotage or any criminal activity, can in good faith refuse to expose them to odium and humiliation. He writes, "if these persons have left the party and established respectable positions for themselves which would be destroyed by his disclosures, he can understandably be unwilling to offer them and their families...
Telford Taylor, another recent writer on the problems of investigations, share many of Barth's criticisms of investigative practices. But he takes a much more restricted view of all individual's moral right to refuse testimony about others...
Taylor does express serious doubts as to whether the McCarthy committee met the test of proper authority when Furry testified before it; he finds a possible moral justification for Furry's action in the procedural elements of the case, if not in the generalized claim of individual conscience that Barth is willing to allow...