G. C. Berkouwer explains Karl Barth’s Eschatology (November 21, 2014)

Gerrit Cornelis Berkouwer  (1903-1996)[source: librarything]G.C. Berkouwer was a Dutch Reformed Theologian in the Amsterdam tradition along with theological greats including Abraham Kuyper, Herman Bavinck and H. Berkof. Berkouwer wrote an excellent introduction to Karl Barth's theology titled, The Triumph of Grace in the Theology of Karl Barth: An Introduciton and Critical […]

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Oliver Crisp on How to Read Karl Barth (September 28, 2014)

Deviant Calvinism (source:fortress press) In Oliver Crisp's exciting new book Deviant Calvinism: Broadening Reformed Theology, he provides a helpful summary on how to read Karl Barth. The description is particularly reminiscent of Barth's paragraph on the twofold election of Jesus Christ in the Church Dogmatics II/2 §33 that Jürgen Moltmann instructed the […]

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Karl Barth’s Last Words in the Church Dogmatics (September 18, 2014)

Karl Barth with his wife Nelly, his son-in-law Max Zellweger and his second great grandson, June 1968. (source:kbarth.org) Jürgen Moltmann once commented on Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics: "Well, we have more than 8,000 pages of Church Dogmatics from Karl Barth. And a very friendly critic once said, 'the truth cannot be so long'. […]

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The Myth of the Unincarnate Word (logos asarkos vs logos incarnandus) (August 26, 2014)

Eastern Orthodox Icon, Resurrection: Harrowing of Hell (source: wikipedia) The Johannine Prologue (John 1:1-18) is a purple passage of the bible, and "In the beginning was the Word (λόγος), and the Word (λόγος) was with God, and the Word (λόγος) was God." (John 1:1 RSV) is among the most famous verses in the […]

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The Legacy of Hans Küng’s Doctrine of Justification (August 24, 2014)

Hans Küng (1928—) was ordained in 1955, and his doctoral thesis, Justification: La Doctrine de Karl Barth et Une Réflexion Catholique was published in 1957 (Justification: The Doctrine of Karl Barth and a Catholic Reflection, 1964 ET). Justification was Küng's first book and was a study of the Protestant and Roman Catholic teachings on the Doctrine of Justification […]

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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 […]

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Yes to Us All: Karl Barth’s Final Words to Emil Brunner (June 20, 2014)

~ Updated and Revised: February 21st, 2019 ~ Karl Barth and Emil Brunner is the greatest tragedy since Romeo and Juliet. The friendship between Barth and Brunner is nearly as famous as its tragic demise. Brunner's famous essay "Nature and Grace" was responded to with a loud "Nein!" by Karl Barth that […]

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Karl Barth’s Letter to Jürgen Moltmann and related correspondences (May 6, 2014)

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 […]

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Karl Barth On The Three Well-Known Theories for Capital Punishment. (October 4, 2013)

Jean-Léon Gérôme - The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer In Karl Barth's criticism of Capital Punishment, he provides a very good summary of the three best arguments for Capital Punishment, because he continues on to criticize and deconstruct each of them.  1) According to the first theory, which is not only the oldest and […]

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Karl Barth on the Temptation of Jesus in the Wilderness (July 17, 2013)

Karl Barth's excellent explanation of three temptations of Jesus by Satan in the wilderness in the small print of his extended discussion of "§59.2 The Judge Judged in Our Place" of his Church Dogmatics IV.1, may be the best exegesis of this event I've encountered. (I've included a long quote of the text below.) 1) […]

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