Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ is a giant Gnostic snake and worships the deity of evolution – Karl Barth (November 1, 2019)

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 […]

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Augustine in Confessions on Platonists and Λόγος (Logos) (June 4, 2012)

In Augustine's Confessions, Book VII, Chapter IX, Section 13, he provides a very helpful summary of what he had learned from Greek Philosophy and how it is similar to Christianity, especially books by John the Evangelist (ie. Gospel of John). I was reminded of his passage by C.H. Dodd's book, Interpretation of […]

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Rudolf Bultmann: de-mythologizing, Gnosticism and his works (March 8, 2012)

Rudolf Bultmann  (1884-1976) was a German Lutheran theologian who taught at the University of Marburg. Bultmann is well know for his de-mythologizing method that he attempted to purge the New Testament of what he perceived to be legendary accretions to the Christian Tradition. The method is historically reminiscent of the penknife redaction of Marcion […]

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