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?” […]

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Angels Are Not Personal Spirits: The Angelology of Karl Barth and Wolfhart Pannenberg (August 11, 2017)

What are angels? Evangelicals are so infatuated with angelic myths, that it's almost impossible to answer! From ancient times, to this very day, the movement of the stars, lightning strikes and earthquakes have been explained by angelic activity, but now all these events may be entirely explained by modern science. […]

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Karl Barth: Believing in Demons makes us Demonic (March 9, 2016)

We do not believe in demons or deny their existence, but we must resolutely disbelieve in demons. Demons! Those fiery red devils that possess everyone. What is to be made of these evil spirits? Are they in every nook and cranny? Or has the Enlightenment evicted them from the world? Karl Barth's dialectical answer is that "we cannot […]

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