Karl Barth’s rejection of the preexistent Word of God: Bruce McCormack’s response to Richard Bauckham (April 15, 2022)

Karl Barth famously argued that Jesus has always possessed a human nature from the beginning of creation, therefore a so-called preexistent Word of God (i.e. Logos) without human nature never existed. Karl Barth affirmed the Virgin Birth, but this does not mean that the second person (or mode-of-being as Barth […]

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REVIEW: Mark R. Lindsay’s God Has Chosen: The Doctrine of Election Through Christian History (December 21, 2020)

Dr. Mark A. Lindsay's new book God Has Chosen: The Doctrine of Election Through Christian History (2020) published by IVP Academic is an engaging history of the doctrine of election that is easy to read and is not laden with technical jargon. Lindsay does a great job of summarizing the […]

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The Romans commentary by the Red Pastor of Safenwil: Karl Barth’s Epistle to the Romans (October 3, 2017)

Karl Barth was in his early thirties and a country pastor in Safenwil, Switzerland when he wrote the first edition of his landmark commentary The Epistle to the Romans (Der Romerbrief, 1919). Barth did not have any advanced theological degrees when he wrote Romans, and he wrote it while ministering to blue collar […]

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Jesus is the Savior of Whole World: Animals, Plants and Rocks (Part 3) (June 29, 2015)

Jesus Christ is the Savior of the Whole World (1 John 2:2), but what is the Maximum Inclusion of this statement? Does this include all people, as well as animals, plants and rocks? I provided John Calvin's answer in Part One, and Karl Barth's in Part Two, and now, Jürgen […]

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Bruce McCormack on the Misuse of the Imago Dei (Image of God) (February 24, 2015)

In a panel discussion at the LA Theology 2015 conference, Bruce McCormack provides this provocative explanation on how the imago dei has been misused in the history of Christian theology. I've transcribed his response in the video link as follows. Bruce McCormack on the imago dei: "The doctrine of the Image of God has […]

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Bruce McCormack on Double Predestination is not the Central Doctrine of John Calvin and classical Reformed theology (May 19, 2014)

Orthodox and Modern: Studies in the Theology of Karl Barth, by Bruce L. McCormack Friedrich Schleiermacher was a Calvinist, and although he is known as the father of Liberal Protestantism for his definition of god as "a feeling of absolute dependence", he was nevertheless a Calvinist and John Calvin was his […]

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