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Karl Barth wrote two famous letters in August 1963 wherein he condemned Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ (1881 – 1955) as a "giant gnostic snake" that has swallowed up Jesus Christ in order to worship the "deity of evolution", and that Emil Brunner is a "harmless blind-worm" in comparison to […]
 
Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928-2014) argued that there was death before the Fall of humanity described in the Creation Stories (Gen 1-3). Pannenberg's explanation of death in prehuman history enables us to better understand the Doctrine of Creation, and how evolutionary sciences may be interpreted in respect to it, and how to […]
 
Was the Historical Adam ever immortal? Wolfhart Pannenberg says that if we look closely at the biblical text, then we will discover that the answer is no! Pannenberg believes that the Fall caused a shortening of human life, but this does not mean that humanity was ever immortal before the […]
 
Read my article on Jürgen Moltmann on Evolution as God's Continuous Creation at BioLogos now! 
 
Bonhoeffer and BioLogos (May 31, 2016)
Read my article on Dietrich Bonhoeffer says Yes to Christianity and Modern Science now!  
 
(This is an expanded edition of an article that was originally published at biologos.org)  Evangelicals today are faced with many hard questions on the doctrine of creation, such as how the biblical creation stories are reconciled with evolutionary science, how to interpret the creation stories in the Bible, and whether there was […]
 
The PostBarthian is now featured at BioLogos! Click here to read my current article at BioLogos: Karl Barth says Yes to Creation and Evolution. Don't miss it! And, be sure to read the comments.
 
The brick line between my feet in this photo is the location where the Berlin Wall once stood and divided east and west Germany. According to a famous Gallup poll, 42-47% of Americans believe in young-earth creationism (YEC), which the poll describes as the belief that "God created human beings pretty much […]
 
I've assembled quotations from three of Karl Barth's books to explain his robust Doctrine of Adam: The Church Dogmatics Vol. IV.1 §60, Christ and Adam: Man and Humanity in Romans 5, and The Epistle to the Romans (Romans II). I've assembled ten statements on Adam to summarized the following quotations from Barth's […]
 
Comparison of a human child skeleton to a chimpanzee Skeleton on display at the American Museum of Natural History The Moltmanniac is my favorite blog on the internet, and he had an excellent post on "I don't BELIEVE in evolution but think it is probably true" that was incredibly helpful, and recently, […]