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All Blog Posts With Tag: Capitalism
Dorothee Sölle (1929–2003) joins the chorus of theologians–including Jürgen Moltmann, T.F. Torrance, and many others–who have criticized the individualistic reduction of Christianity to "a personal relationship with Jesus". In her book Thinking About God: An Introduction to Theology, Sölle keenly perceived that capitalism in America has caused everything to be […]
Karl Barth on why Capitalism is a Demonic Self-Deception (November 7, 2017)
In the second edition of Karl Barth and Radical Politics (2017), Dr. George Hunsinger provided a helpful summary of Barth's severe criticisms of capitalism, and in one quote, Barth calls capitalism "almost unequivocally demonic." In CD III/2, Karl Barth said true humanity is "Jesus, a man for other men" (CD III/2), and […]