An Evaluation of Karl Barth’s Encounter Revelation and the View of God

Abstract

This paper aimed at evaluating Karl Barth’s theology of encounter revelation and the view of God in relation to the Christian theology of the knowledge of God. It employed literary approach of research that involves bibliographic data in four sections. The first section discussed a brief history of Karl Barth. The second section is an overview of the doctrine of revelation, both general and special revelation. Section three discussed Karl Birth’s view of God in the context of encounter revelation. The fourth section evaluated Karl Barth’s view of encounter revelation in relation to the knowledge of God. This study concluded that the encounter revelation is not the only way of knowing God. Though God reveals Himself fully through the person of Jesus Christ, He also reveals Himself in through general (Universal) and special (particular) revelation.