The result is that Barth’s doctrine of justification is not susceptible to the same criticisms commonly brought against a judicial (forensic) reading, while his soteriology becomes more consistently forensic than that of the Reformation and points toward a different approach to the relationship between justification in Paul and the Protestant doctrine.
Shannon Nicole Smythe is a candidate for ordination in the Presbyterian Church (USA), an adjunct instructor for Seattle Pacific University, and the author of Women in Ministry: Questions and Answers in the Exploration of a Calling (2015). She earned a PhD in theology from Princeton Theological Seminary. This volume is a revision of a dissertation completed at Princeton Theological Seminary.