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The Theology of Conversion
Conceiving the Christian Life With and Beyond Karl Barth
The Theology of Conversion
Conceiving the Christian Life With and Beyond Karl Barth
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Description
Reclaims the theology of Christian conversion by integrating Karl Barth's doctrine of conversion within a constructive theological framework.
This book delivers a doctrinally rich account of Christian conversion that challenges reductive, experience-based approaches. Drawing from Scripture and Barth's Church Dogmatics, Tom Dove introduces a fourfold framework that defines conversion as inseparably connected to Christ's person and work, purposive, a divine event, and integrated with the Christian life.
He develops this framework through engaging with Barth's doctrines of election, reconciliation, calling, baptism with the Holy Spirit, and creation. Subsequently, Dove constructively extends Barth's theology to show how the Holy Spirit's activity across Christ's history provides the basis for connecting conversion and the Christian life.
By magnifying the work of Christ and the Spirit, this study offers a holistic theological vision that integrates conversion with the reality of Christian existence.
Table of Contents
Part I - With Barth
1. Conversion in Christ
2. The Call of Christ to Christians
3. Baptism with the Holy Spirit
4. Conversion and the Human Creature
Part II - Beyond Barth
5. The Spirit of the Christian life
6. Conversion and the Christian Life
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | 17 Sep 2026 |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 240 |
| ISBN | 9780567729125 |
| Imprint | T&T Clark |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Series | T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Reviews
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Dove provides a profound and incisive account of Christian conversion, thinking both with and beyond Karl Barth. He grounds conversion not in the capricious patterns of human experience but in Christ's prophetic work and steadfast commitment to humanity. With an impressive command of Barth's theology, he also advances a compelling argument for how we should think theologically about assurance and responsibility. In so doing, Dove offers the academy and the church a constructive path for renewed reflection on grace and the transformation it brings.
Andrew Torrance, University of St Andrews, UK

























