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Karl Barth on Holy Scripture’s Capacity for Error (July 24, 2019)

The Origin of the Dictation Theory of Inspiration In the Post-Reformation era, a century after the deaths of Martin Luther, John Calvin and the first and second generation reformers, the doctrine of inspiration of the Scriptures evolved into a dictation theory of inspiration, in which the biblical writers were the very […]

The Futility of Debating a Biblicist (October 27, 2016)

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 […]

2009 Emergent Village Theological Conversation with Jürgen Moltmann: Women, Homosexuality, Antisemitism, Hermeneutics and more. (January 9, 2014)

I'm mezmerized by the 2009 Emergent Village Theological Conversation with Jürgen Moltmann. I've been re-listening to them, after they were re-published on Tony Jones' blog. One of the most memorable moments was Moltmann's theological method, which he explains based on the contrast between the Women Around Jesus who were preachers of […]

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 […]

John T. McNeill, On John Calvin’s View of Scripture (January 18, 2013)

John Calvin Did John Calvin hold to a doctrine of the Scriptures that is rejected by the Reformed Confessions? And would Calvin's understanding of Scripture be accepted as acceptable by most Evangelical Churches in America today? It seems that according to John T. McNeill's Introduction to his edition of the "Institutes […]

Origen Apology for the Allegorical Method (Origenism) (June 13, 2012)

Origen of Alexandria (185-232) was famous for his Neo-Platonic allegorical method often referred to as "Origenism". Often this involves extreme typology that the meaning derived from the text often appears absurd. This type of Typology is common throughout the Patristics, with the one anchor being in the person of Christ. All […]