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All Blog Posts With Tag: Church Dogmatics
My good friend Dr. Marty Folsom has published the first volume in his new book-series Karl Barth's Church Dogmatic's For Everyone Vol. 1. Each volume corresponds to a volume of Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics, hence the subtitle "The Doctrine of the Word of God". The book is like a traveler's guide […]
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 […]
Related: Auschwitz, Book Review, Bruce L. McCormack, Bruce McCormack, CD II/2, Church Dogmatics, Church Dogmatics II/2, doctrine of election, election, George Hunsinger, God Has Chosen: The Doctrine of Election Through Christian History, Karl Barth, Mark R Lindsay, Markus Barth, Pierre Murray, Reading Barth With Charity: A Hermeneutical Proposal, Review
The Angels Laugh at Old Karl Barth (May 23, 2020)
Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics is the greatest theological achievement of the modern era, and yet Barth often remarked in humility that God laughs at his Dogmatics. My friend Dr. Marty Folsom reminded me of the following famous and frequently quoted example of Barth's humble view of his marvelous achievement:
"The angels laugh at old […]
Mnemonics for Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics (feat. Robert McAfee Brown) (February 19, 2020)
Robert McAfee Brown's The Collect'd Writings of St. Hereticus is a hilarious guidebook for heretics everywhere and a formidable Life of St. Hereticus. Robert. M. Brown (not to be confused with Raymond E. Brown) incorporates copious references to Karl Barth throughout the book, mostly in jest, but also at times surprisingly […]
How may any Christian support capital punishment, with the knowledge that Jesus Christ had died for their sins? (1 Corinthians 15:3) Karl Barth argues that it is an astonishing fact that the Church has not unilaterally opposed the death penalty worldwide, and that after two millennia of Church history and […]
Ten Reasons Why There Is No Afterlife (feat. Karl Barth) (May 13, 2019)
Karl Barth famously argued that the Christian hope is for eternal life and not for afterlife because afterlife is a "pagan dream of good times after death" like the vikings who longed to drink ale and feast in the halls of Valhalla with Odin and the norse gods forever. If the […]
The Church Dogmatics, Vol IV: Doctrine of Reconciliation
From 1952 until 1967, Karl Barth devoted his time at the University of Basel to writing the unfinished fourth and final volume of the Church Dogmatics: the "Doctrine of Reconciliation" (CD IV). I will summarize this time by summarizing each of the part-volumes […]
Related: Basel, CD IV, CD IV.1, CD IV/2, CD IV/3, CD IV/3.1, CD IV/3.2, CD IV/4, CD V, Charlotte von Kirschbaum, Christian Life, Church Dogmatics, Church Dogmatics IV, Church Dogmatics IV.1, Church Dogmatics IV/2, Church Dogmatics IV/3, Church Dogmatics IV/3.1, Church Dogmatics IV/3.2, Church Dogmatics IV/4, Church Dogmatics V, David W. Congdon, G.C. Berkouwer, Hans Küng, Rudolf Bultmann, W. Travis McMaken, white whale
The Church Dogmatics, Vol III: Doctrine of Creation
After World War II ended, Karl Barth's participation in the Confessing Church diminished. His academic work at the University of Basel allowed Barth to continue his magnum opus the Church Dogmatics that he had begun in 1932. In this Part 6, I will discuss […]
Related: Basle, CD III, CD III/1, CD III/2, CD III/3, CD III/4, Charlotte von Kirschbaum, Church Dogmatics, Church Dogmatics III/1, Church Dogmatics III/2, Church Dogmatics III/3, Church Dogmatics III/4, Doctrine of Creation, infant baptism, Karl Barth, life of karl barth, paedobaptism, Rudolf Bultmann
John Calvin's proof for existence of Satan
In the Institutes of the Christian Religion I.14.17, John Calvin argues that the devil (or satan) and demons must exist in the world, because there must exist an agent that mediates between the goodness of god and the evil happenings in the world, such […]
After March 26th, 1935 Karl Barth was deported from Nazi Germany via police escort to Switzerland because he refused to sign the Nazi "Oath of Loyalty" without modification to Adolf Hitler (also known as "Hitler's Oath"). After arriving in Switzerland, Barth became the Professor of Systematic Theology at the University […]
Related: Anna Katharina Sartoris, Bruce L. McCormack, CD I/1, CD I/2, CD II/1, CD II/2, Charlotte von Kirschbaum, Church Dogmatics, Church Dogmatics I/1, Church Dogmatics I/2, Church Dogmatics II/1, Church Dogmatics II/2, Eberhard Busch, Faith of the Church, George Hunsinger, Hans Urs Von Balthasar, Heinrich Barth, Karl Barth, life of karl barth, Lollo, Matthias Barth, Oath of Loyalty, Peter Barth, The Teaching of the Church Regarding Baptism, W. Travis McMaken, World War II
