880-01 Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Princeton Theological Seminary, 2013 under title Forensic Apocalypticism of a Reformed Order: Karl Barth's Exegetically Grounded Doctrine of Justification.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-248) and index.

Introduction -- Pauline apocalyptic eschatology and Barth'sè èRomerbrief -- Barth's theological development after Der èRomerbrief -- The dimensions of revelation in Barth's forensic apocalyptic doctrine of justification -- The place of the atonement in Barth's forensic apocalyptic doctrine of justification -- The aspects of justification in Barth's forensic apocalyptic doctrine of justificaiton -- The role of theological anthropology in Barth's forensic apocalyptic doctrine of justification -- The eschatological dimensions of Barth's forensic apocalyptic doctrine of justification -- Conclusion.

Concerned by the ever-widening chasm between Paul and Reformation theology, Forensic Apocalyptic Theology is a thorough and innovative examination of the mature work of Karl Barth in relationship to the question of Paul and the Protestant doctrine of justification. Shannon Nicole Smythe argues that the basis of Barth's revised doctrine of justification is located in his mature Christology, which is both deeply apocalyptic and thoroughly forensic. Closely analyzing Barth's exegetical work, Smythe discovers in Barth what she terms a "forensic-apocalyptic" approach, which allows him to formulate a doctrine of justification with stronger ties not only to the Reformation doctrine but also to Pauline apocalyptic. 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. (Publisher).