Resurrection of the Dead

Karl Barth saw Chapter 15 as the center of 1st Corinthians arguing that a misunderstanding of the resurrection underlies all the problems in Corinth. In this volume he develops his view of biblical eschatology asserting that Chapter 15 is key to understanding the testimony of the New Testament. Barth understood the last things not as an end to history but as an end-history with which any period is faced. He only speaks of last things who would speak of the end of all things of their end understood plainly and fundamentally of a reality so radically superior to all things that the existence of all things would be utterly and entirely based upon it alone and thus in speaking of their end he would in truth be speaking of nothing else than their beginning. Page 104