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Dwight L. Moody (1837—1899) was born into a large poor family in a small town of Massachusetts, and moved to Boston when he was 17 to sell shoes and find fortune, but found Jesus instead, and become one of the most influential and famous revivalist preachers in American history, and […]
Errors of Inerrancy #9: Inerrancy turns the Bible into a Paper Pope. (April 17, 2017)
[The Errors of Inerrancy: A ten-part series on why Biblical Inerrancy censors the Scriptures and divides Evangelicals.]
The Errors of Inerrancy #9: Inerrancy turns the Bible into a Paper Pope.
Biblical Inerrancy not only causes misunderstanding of the Bible, it also causes misuse of the Bible. When Biblical Inerrancy abolishes the distinction between […]
The Church Dogmatics (CD) is an unfinished theological summa. Karl Barth started the Church Dogmatics in 1932, and had planned five volumes of the Church Dogmatics, but abandoned it near the end of his life in 1967, before completing the fourth volume. We possess a fragment on baptism from the final part of volume […]
Karl Barth on the Pentecost: Jesus is Standing in the Midst (March 22, 2017)
In the early 1920's, Karl Barth preached a sermon on Pentecost to his tiny church in Safenwil, Switzerland. In this sermon, "Come, Creator Spirit!", Barth says that Christians today have much more in common with the strangers and immigrants who came together at Pentecost, than to the Apostles; these immigrants […]
Karl Barth proposed that the Trinitarian formula of "one God in three persons" be updated to "one God in three modes of being" (or "... ways of being"). Is Barth teaching Sabellian modalism? No! The reason for the change, is that Barth believed that the word "person" has substantially changed in meaning to include an "attribute […]
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A Shared Mercy by Jon Coutts (Review) (February 27, 2017)
Dr. John Coutts [1]Jon Coutts' A Shared Mercy: Karl Barth on Forgiveness and the Church is an exploration into Karl Barth's theology of forgiveness, and it is also a commentary on Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics: The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Volume 4 (CD IV). A Shared Mercy is a stopgap between dogmatics in the academy and […]
An Explorer’s Guide to Karl Barth by David Guretzki (Review) (February 6, 2017)
David Guretzki's An Explorer's Guide to Karl Barth is a hitchhiker's guide to Karl Barth for the average joe. Karl Barth is notoriously difficult to epitomize and summarize, and other so-called "introductory" books on Karl Barth are very, very difficult to read. Guretzki's Karl Barth is a book that I feel comfortable giving to […]
Karl Barth says Jesus Christ is the hope of non-Christians (February 3, 2017)
Jesus Christ is the Savior of all the World, especially those who believe (1 Tim 4:10), but not only those who believe, because non-Christians are included too! It is true that non-Christians do not have faith or hope in Jesus, but Jesus remains to be their hope, despite their disbelief […]
How Jürgen Moltmann Reads and Interprets the Bible (January 31, 2017)
How do we know that we understand the Bible when we read it? The word "hermeneutics" refers to the way we read and interpret the Bible, and if our hermeneutical approach is wrong, then we will not understand the Bible. Often disagreements in theology come down to people reading the […]
The Four Eschatological Paragraphs of Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics (December 5, 2016)
Karl Barth's Eschatology: An Introduction
Karl Barth wrote about Eschatology throughout the 75 paragraphs (i.e. sections §'s) of the Church Dogmatics, but there are four paragraphs in particular that elucidates Barth's doctrine of last things. In this post, I will provide a sketch of Barth's eschatology writings in the Church Dogmatics […]
