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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 […]
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Many Christians believes that there will be a future general resurrection of all people at the end of time, and this event will be initiated by the "Second Coming" of Jesus Christ. Karl Barth argues that the future resurrection is not a second coming of Jesus, because there is only one coming […]
Karl Barth’s Rejection of Universalism (August 18, 2016)
Since the stone-ages of Cornelius Van Til until modern times, many have claimed that Karl Barth's theology necessarily concludes universalism or else it is incoherent, as recently exemplified by Oliver Crisp's cavalier statement in his Deviant Calvinism, "that the scope of human salvation envisioned in the theology of Karl Barth either is […]
At the end of the Church Dogmatics, Karl Barth took a surprising turn in his affirmation of "secular parables" that made many wonder if Barth had reversed his resounding Nein! to Emil Brunner many years prior. In the Church Dogmatics Vol. IV/3.1, §69.2 "The Light of Life", Barth develops his own […]
Jürgen Moltmann on Unfinished Summas and Natural Theology (July 15, 2014)
Unfinished Barcelona Cathedral (Sagrada)
Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics is 8,000 pages and unfinished. Thomas Aquinas' great theological system, The Summa Theologica, is unfinished too. All the medieval summas are unfinished in the same way as the medieval summas are unfinished. The post-magesterial reformers of the 16th and 17th century also produced […]
Karl Barth
Karl Barth and Jürgen Moltmann had a very famous correspondence of letters in the 1960's. Unfortunately, many only read Barth's response to Moltmann without correct context and conclude that Barth sent Moltmann only a scathing letter of rejection, and this couldn't be farther from the truth. The following letters are […]