Karl Barth and the Limits of Angelology (December 28, 2021)

What truth may we speak about angels? It is a daunting theological locus. Of angels, Karl Barth says “How are we to steer a way between this Scylla and Charybdis, between the far too interesting mythology of the ancients and the far too uninteresting ‘demythologization’ of most of the moderns?” […]

Related: Adolf Schlatter, ambassadors of god, angel, angelology, angels, Bretschneider, CD III/3, Demons, Dorner, J. W. Baier, Karl Barth, Limits of Angelology, Martensen, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Reinhard, Rothe, St. Dionysius the Areopagite, Thomas Aquinas, Thomist, Troeltsch

The repression of early Jewish Christianity and the succession of Islam as its rightful heir (ft. Hans Küng) (May 2, 2019)

The rise and fall of early Jewish Christianity Jesus of Nazareth was an Aramaic speaking Jew in Judea, and all of his disciples and prophetic mission were strictly to Jewish people (Matt 15:24) and within Jewish lands (Matt 10:5-6), and he was firmly within Judaism (Matt 5:17-18). Likewise, the first Christians […]

Related: Adolf Schlatter, Christianity: Essence History Future, early Jewish Christianity, Ebionites, Elkesaites, Hans Küng, Islam, Muhammad, Nazarenes, Nestorians, Qur'an