Does the Devil (or Satan) Exist? Friedrich Schleiermacher debates John Calvin (March 22, 2019)

John Calvin's proof for existence of Satan In the Institutes of the Christian Religion I.14.17, John Calvin argues that the devil (or satan) and demons must exist in the world, because there must exist an agent that mediates between the goodness of god and the evil happenings in the world, such […]

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Karl Barth’s Angry Letter to Helmut Gollwitzer on the Book of Job (August 21, 2016)

In 1959, Karl Barth wrote an exposition of the Book of Job that he divided into four long small-print sections weaved into the end of the Church Dogmatics IV/3.1. Helmut Gollwitzer was Karl Barth's personal assistant in the 1960's after Charlotte Von Kirschbaum became ill. And in 1966, Gollwitzer realized that these small-print sections […]

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Ronald E. Osborn on God Has No Rational Answer to Job (July 12, 2014)

Job by Léon Bonnat God responds to Job out of the whirlwind, Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? (Job 38:4). In Ronald E. Osborn's book Death Before The Fall: Biblical Literalism and the Problem of Animal Suffering, Osborn asks whether God is irritated with Job questioning, and answers with a […]

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