The Defeat of Satan

This book offers an innovative, critical, and constructive exploration of Barths theology, one which demonstrates the radicality of his thought and which underscores the continued contribution he might make to theological reflection on a central element of the Christian tradition. Declan Kelly uncovers the promise of viewing Barths account of salvation as a three-agent dramaa drama involving God, humanity, and anti-God powers. Kelly demonstrates and examines Barths cosmological portrayal of Gods saving event as a defeat of the lordship of Satan in the cosmosand, bound up with this, as an ending of Gods left handed activityand as the bringing into existence of a new creation under the rule of Gods right hand. Barths doctrines of election, the atonement, and the resurrection receive a fresh reading as the book explores his apocalyptic grasp of Gods eschatological deed of salvation and as it puts forward the claimwith and against Barththat the climax of this deed of salvation is best located in the event of Gods raising of Christ from the dead.