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All Blog Posts With Tag: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Today is Earth Day 2019. In The Ethics of Hope, Jürgen Moltmann praised Dietrich Bonhoeffer as one of the few "who made the earth the subject of theological thinking"[1] because he "understood the kingdom of God as the 'kingdom of resurrection on earth'"[2]. According to Moltmann, Bonhoeffer followed Christoph Blumhardt's […]
Karl Barth speaks a decisive No! to suicide in the Church Dogmatics III/4. In the last week, after the suicide of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, there have been many positive and negative responses, so it is an appropriate time to discuss the ethics of suicide. Karl Barth argues that suicide is […]
[The Errors of Inerrancy: A ten-part series on why Biblical Inerrancy censors the Scriptures and divides Evangelicals.]
The Errors of Inerrancy: #4. Inerrancy denies that the Bible contains scientific errors
Introduction
Herman Bavinck said, "Scripture does not tell us how the heavens move but how we move to heaven." [1] And so, "It […]
Bonhoeffer and BioLogos (May 31, 2016)
Read my article on Dietrich Bonhoeffer says Yes to Christianity and Modern Science now!
Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Friendship with Karl Barth (May 16, 2016)
Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Friendship
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was an admirer of Karl Barth and his theology long before they became personal friends. Eberhard Bethge was Bonhoeffer's student, friend and biographer. In Bonhoeffer: A Biography, Bethge provides the following outline of Bonhoeffer's friendship with Karl Barth that he describes as developing through […]
Early Christian depiction of Adam and Eve in the Catacombs of Marcellinus and Peter
Dietrich Bonhoeffer in bold fashion comments on Genesis 2:24 that "the narrator is obviously stumbling". This is one of many bold and enlightening sections of his book, Creation and Fall, Temptation: Two Biblical Studies, and one that is foundational to […]
Dietrich Bonhoeffer on God Tempts Man and God Tempts No Man (July 3, 2014)
Brooklyn Museum - Jesus Ministered to by Angels (Jésus assisté par les anges)
Temptation. Bonhoeffer asks us, "But how can the Bible say that God tempts man?" and "God tempts no one, says James." Yes, God temps us. No, God doesn't tempt us. Bonhoeffer rightly declares, "What does it all mean?" […]
The sun, planets and angels and the firmament. Woodcut dated 1475.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote an amazing, tiny commentary on Genesis 1-3 titled, Creation and Fall, Temptation. He once boasted that it was better then other commentaries that were many times longer. It is a refreshing and helpful explanation of those pesky and […]
Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the Days of Creation (June 30, 2014)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Creation and Fall; Temptation: Two Biblical Studies is short and refreshing commentary on Genesis 1-3. Karl Barth's majestic commentary on these same chapters in the Church Dogmatics III/1 was a complete paradigm shift for how I understood the Doctrine of Creation. However, Barth is far too technical for my friends and […]
Third Use of the Law (Tertius Usus Legis) (November 7, 2012)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
At the end of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Ethics, there is an analysis of the Lutheran symbolic literature (ie. the Book of Concord: the Augsburg Confession, Luther's Catechisms, etc.) Bonhoeffer, therein, discussed the Lutheran understand of the Law and asks whether there is one primary use of the Law (primus usus legis) or three?
I'll summarize Bonhoeffer's three […]
