What is your favorite volume of Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics? (poll) (July 17, 2015)

What is your favorite volume of Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics? Church Dogmatics I/1: The Doctrine of the Word of God, Part 1 Church Dogmatics I/2: The Doctrine of the Word of God, Part 2 Church Dogmatics II/1: The Doctrine of God, Part 1 Church Dogmatics II/2: The Doctrine of God, […]

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Karl Barth’s Secular Parables: A Hidden YES to Natural Revelation? (June 5, 2015)

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 […]

Related: CD IV/3, CD IV/3.1, Church Dogmatics, Church Dogmatics IV/3, Church Dogmatics IV/3.1, Emil Brunner, Karl Barth, Natural Revelation, Natural Theology, Secular Parables

Karl Barth’s Sermons to the Basel Prisoners: How to Preach the Church Dogmatics (April 25, 2015)

Karl Barth (source: kbarth.org) Karl Barth preached to the Basel prisoners at the end of his life until his health no longer allowed it. It was often said that many considered committing crimes so that they would be privileged to hear Barth preach. Thankfully, a collection of these prison sermons from 1954-1959 […]

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Karl Barth on Demythologizing the Empty Tomb and Ascension (March 15, 2015)

Jesus is Risen and the Tomb is Empty are often asserted together, but they are two distinct statements: Jesus is Risen is an article of faith but the Empty Tomb is a Passion narrative that may be demythologized. Barth explains the difference between these two statements when he says: "Christians do not believe in […]

Related: CD III/2, Church Dogmatics, Church Dogmatics III/2, Empty Tomb, Karl Barth, Resurrection, Rudolf Bultmann

Karl Barth on the so-called Historical Adam (March 5, 2015)

I've assembled quotations from three of Karl Barth's books to explain his robust Doctrine of Adam: The Church Dogmatics Vol. IV.1 §60, Christ and Adam: Man and Humanity in Romans 5, and The Epistle to the Romans (Romans II). I've assembled ten statements on Adam to summarized the following quotations from Barth's […]

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Jürgen Moltmann’s Theological Method of Curiosity (January 9, 2015)

(Revised and updated on March 29th, 2019) What is Jürgen Moltmann's theological method? He says it is Curiosity! A curiosity for adventure and discovery into an unknown country. In the following quotation from the Jurgen Moltmann: Collected Reader, he explains that he is his own theological method, such that theology is a 'journey […]

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Karl Barth’s Definition of Saga (January 5, 2015)

Noah mosaic (source: wikipedia) What is the literature genre of "saga"? Karl Barth identifies the Creation accounts as an examples of the saga genre. Saga is not limited to the Proto-History of Genesis; it is utilized throughout the scriptures. See, for an example, Karl Barth's use of saga in his exposition of the Twelve Spies in the Land […]

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Defending the Arch-Heretic Marcion of Sinope (January 3, 2015)

Marcion of Sinope (source: wikipedia) Marcion of Sinope (c. 85—160) is the Arch-Heretic according to the universal consensus of the [early] Church. Marcion (pronounced "Martian") is an alien to the Christian Church, but not because he is a green extraterrestrial from Mars. Marcion is the greatest heretic of all time, even greater than […]

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Karl Barth believed in the Virgin Birth (December 25, 2014)

Nativity of the Lord, Icon by St. Andrei Rublev (1405), Cathedral of the Annunciation, Moscow Kremlin. (source: wikipedia) Karl Barth believed in the Virgin Birth. Barth's theological nemesis Emil Brunner did not and most all of Barth's heirs chose to follow Emil Brunner's famous rejection of the Virgin Birth. Wolfhart Pannenberg sided with Brunner and rejected […]

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Karl Barth’s use of Saga in Exposition of Scripture (November 29, 2014)

Pastor Karl Barth (source: kbarth.org) Karl Barth's Doctrine of Holy Scripture is expounded in the Church Dogmatics Vol. I/2 §19-21, yet for kinetic learners, Barth's Doctrine of Scripture may be bested learned by reading Barth's expositions of Scripture in the myriad fine print sections throughout the paragraphs of the Church Dogmatics, especially at the end of […]

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