Karl Barth on the Appeal to Scripture: Have We Created a Myth? (September 16, 2014)

Codex Gigas (source: wikipedia) Jesus Christ is the Word of God in the flesh. We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life. (1 John 1:1 […]

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Barth’s The Authority of the Word of God (CD I.2 §20.1) (February 22, 2012)

Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics I.2, §20.1 (pages 538-585) on "The Authority of the Word of God" has an extended discussion about the authority of the Holy Scriptures in contrast to the authority of the Church. (You may read it entirety on Google Books here.) The fundamental question is whether the […]

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