Karl Barth against Biblicism of Gottfried Menken (June 4, 2014)

In the Göttingen Dogmatics, Karl Barth wrote that "No one reads the Bible directly. We all read it through a set of glasses, whether we want to or not..." Biblicism is the use of the Bible against Church History, and it is preference one's private interpretation of the bible over and against what the […]

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Karl Barth on modern Biblicism: is it an Absolutism of the Enlightenment? (October 28, 2013)

Karl Barth I found the following quotation from Karl Barth in his Church Dogmatics I.2 on the problem of modern Biblicism. Biblicism may be described as the error of turning the excellent doctrine of sola scriptura of the Reformers into the erroneous idea of solo scriptura. It is also a distortion […]

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