Karl Rahner on Why Atheists Glorify God (March 27, 2018)

"Be merciful to those who doubt" ~ Jude 22 (NIV) Atheists are treated poorly by many Christians today and I'm deeply disturbed by the damning statements I've often heard Christians say to atheists. Not long ago I witnessed an impassive Christian say to an atheist that they were going to hell unless […]

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Karl Barth on Atheism, Eternal Punishment and the Final Judgment (January 9, 2018)

Insights: Karl Barth's Reflections on the Life of Faith is a short book containing one-page insights on different topics selected from Karl Barth's writings by his assistant Eberhard Busch. One of the last insights in the book is called "Nothing Will Be Lost" wherein Barth discusses the final Judgment. Barth believed that there […]

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Defending Atheism: Wolfhart Pannenberg on Why Proofs for the Existence of God are Expressions of Unbelief (December 28, 2017)

Psalm 14:1 NRSV says "Fools say in their hearts, 'There is no God.'" The Psalmist is right, that fools often deny the existence of God, but fools are not the only ones who deny the existence of God. In fact, there is no proof for the existence of god at […]

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Jürgen Moltmann on Inviting Non-Christians to the Lord’s Supper (December 13, 2017)

Jürgen Moltmann says that Jesus Christ's invitation to the Lord's Supper extends beyond the frontier of Christianity and includes the whole world, such that atheists and non-Christians are invited to partake the Eucharist. Moltmann argues that no restrictions to the Lord's Supper are justified, because Jesus invited the tax-collectors and […]

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H. Richard Niebuhr on the agreement between Karl Barth and Ludwig Feuerbach (July 23, 2017)

The 1957 Harper & Row Publishers english edition of Ludwig Feuerbach's infamous Essence of Christianity contains an all-star cast, including a foreword by H. Richard Niebuhr, a long introduction by Karl Barth, and was translated by George Eliot (a pseudonym for Mary Ann Evans, who also translated D. F. Strauss's similarly […]

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Hans Küng’s Argument Against Feuerbach’s Atheism (December 14, 2015)

Is God's existence only a projection of man's wishes that corresponds to no object in reality? Ludwig Feuerbach thinks so, and it is the basis of his atheism. Feuerbach is famous for his belief that theology is reducible to anthropology, such that man's religious beliefs are projections of his wishes so that man […]

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Jürgen Moltmann On The Lausanne Covenant and Atheism. (January 14, 2013)

Jurgen Moltmann's "The Coming of God: Christian Eschatology" Jürgen Moltmann's critique of mainline evangelicalism's explanation of justification demonstrates a serious problem with common presentations of the gospel. If salvation ultimately comes down to a person's decision according to their own free will, then how is this explanation any different than Atheism? It excludes any […]

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