Karl Barth and the Limits of Angelology (December 28, 2021)

What truth may we speak about angels? It is a daunting theological locus. Of angels, Karl Barth says “How are we to steer a way between this Scylla and Charybdis, between the far too interesting mythology of the ancients and the far too uninteresting ‘demythologization’ of most of the moderns?” […]

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Does the Devil (or Satan) Exist? Friedrich Schleiermacher debates John Calvin (March 22, 2019)

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 […]

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Karl Barth: Believing in Demons makes us Demonic (March 9, 2016)

We do not believe in demons or deny their existence, but we must resolutely disbelieve in demons. Demons! Those fiery red devils that possess everyone. What is to be made of these evil spirits? Are they in every nook and cranny? Or has the Enlightenment evicted them from the world? Karl Barth's dialectical answer is that "we cannot […]

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