Divine ‘Pastness’ and the Creation of Hope: The Significance of the Sepultus est…

This article explores Karl Barth’s exegesis of the ‘sepultus est…’ from Apostles’ Creed, as articulated in his 1935 Credo lectures. I argue that Barth accords sepultus a degree theological significance is against grain, not only majority western interpretations Jesus’s burial, but also own later interpretation it within Kirchliche Dogmatik. Specifically, this argues lectures, exegetes terms divine self-surrender to ‘pure pastness’ ‘state and fate’ all humanity. As consequence, can then be used pivot different, more hopeful, future.