Michael D O’neil
Biographic Data
| ID | 1212006 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael D O’neil |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael D |
| FAMILY NAME | O’neil |
| SIGNATURE | O’NEIL M D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Morling College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7267-9698 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“Turned into a Different Person”
Karl Barth’s final volume of his Church Dogmatics includes a subsection entitled “Baptism with the Holy Spirit” as part of his discussion of the foundation of the Christian life ( Church Dogmatics IV /4, 2–40). Analysis of this subsection shows that Barth conceives of this “baptism” as a person’s conversion, the beginning of human faithfulness toward God. As such, it is very different from typical pentecostal construals of the doctrine, which per…
The Role of Baptism in Christian Identity Formation
The construction of one's identity in late modernity is sometimes viewed as a project of the autonomous self in which one's identity may shift or change over the course of one's existence and development. For the Christian, however, one's identity is both a divine gift, and a task of ecclesial formation, and for both the gift and the task, Christian baptism is fundamental. Baptism represents the death of the self and its rebirth in Christ, a deci…
As If Nothing Had Happened
Adolf Hitler's rise to power in early 1933 precipitated an ecclesial and theological crisis in the life of the German churches. Karl Barth responded to the crisis in his treatise Theological Existence Today, calling the German church to steadfast faithfulness in the face of increasing pressure to compromise the central commitments of its faith. This essay provides an exposition of Barth's treatise, exploring his understanding of theological exist…
Ethics and Epistemology Ecclesial Existence in a Postmodern Era
This essay endeavors to show that application of a universalist epistemic method in theological ethics results in a construal of God, which is, from a biblical perspective, reductionist, and is a form of ethics in which universality is achieved at the expense of plurality. It argues for the formal possibility of an ecclesial ethics grounded in a tradition‐centered rationality. It further argues that such an ethic need not result in a narrow and d…
Karl Barth’s Doctrine of Election
This essay provides a close reading of Karl Barth’s doctrine of election, attending not only to his argument but also to the patterns of his rhetoric and to his idiosyncratic use of terminology in order to uncover the theological logic that drives his doctrine, and thus to assess its validity. Particular attention is given to the telos of election as Barth conceived it, his theological method, and the enduring criticism that Barth’s doctrine lead…
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Karl Barth’s Doctrine of Election
This essay provides a close reading of Karl Barth’s doctrine of election, attending not only to his argument but also to the patterns of his rhetoric and to his idiosyncratic use of terminology in order to uncover the theological logic that drives his doctrine, and thus to assess its validity. Particular attention is given to the telos of election as Barth conceived it, his theological method, and the enduring criticism that Barth’s doctrine lead…
Ethics and Epistemology Ecclesial Existence in a Postmodern Era
This essay endeavors to show that application of a universalist epistemic method in theological ethics results in a construal of God, which is, from a biblical perspective, reductionist, and is a form of ethics in which universality is achieved at the expense of plurality. It argues for the formal possibility of an ecclesial ethics grounded in a tradition‐centered rationality. It further argues that such an ethic need not result in a narrow and d…
As If Nothing Had Happened
Adolf Hitler's rise to power in early 1933 precipitated an ecclesial and theological crisis in the life of the German churches. Karl Barth responded to the crisis in his treatise Theological Existence Today, calling the German church to steadfast faithfulness in the face of increasing pressure to compromise the central commitments of its faith. This essay provides an exposition of Barth's treatise, exploring his understanding of theological exist…
“Turned into a Different Person”
Karl Barth’s final volume of his Church Dogmatics includes a subsection entitled “Baptism with the Holy Spirit” as part of his discussion of the foundation of the Christian life ( Church Dogmatics IV /4, 2–40). Analysis of this subsection shows that Barth conceives of this “baptism” as a person’s conversion, the beginning of human faithfulness toward God. As such, it is very different from typical pentecostal construals of the doctrine, which per…
The Role of Baptism in Christian Identity Formation
The construction of one's identity in late modernity is sometimes viewed as a project of the autonomous self in which one's identity may shift or change over the course of one's existence and development. For the Christian, however, one's identity is both a divine gift, and a task of ecclesial formation, and for both the gift and the task, Christian baptism is fundamental. Baptism represents the death of the self and its rebirth in Christ, a deci…
Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Theology (4 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Baptism (2 works) · Christian Theology and Mission (2 works) · Doctrine (2 works) · Karl Barth and Christian Theology (2 works)