The resurrection is an unveiling of our lives from crib to grave – Karl Barth (April 7, 2018)

In Karl Barth's Faith of the Church, describes the future resurrection like an unveiling of an art exhibit. Barth compares our entire lives from birth to death to an art exhibit under a table cloth, such that the art exhibit is present to all, but its true form is unrecognizable […]

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A Theology of Sleep: Karl Barth said human sleeping are little images of the great and only uprising of Christ in his resurrection (December 3, 2017)

I've been deathly ill and confined to my bed for the last week, so it's given me time to reflect upon sleep. Karl Barth described human sleeping as "little images of the great and only uprising of Christ in his resurrection." So, we may reflect upon the revelation of Jesus […]

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Karl Barth’s “No” to Natural Revelation in the Faith of the Church (May 16, 2015)

Karl Barth gave a series of lectures on the Apostles' Creed from 1940 to 1943 that were recorded with a stenographer and then published with Barth's permission in a book titled, The Faith of the Church: A Commentary on the Apostles' Creed according to Calvin's Catechism. As the title indicates, Barth's lectures were […]

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