Karl Barth’s Doctrine of Baptism and Rejection of Infant Baptism (July 18, 2019)

Karl Barth's rejection of infant baptism (paedobaptism) in his doctrine of baptism (CD IV/4) is infamous. Barth was a professor and pastor within the Swiss Reformed church, and the Reformed tradition has strongly affirmed the baptism of infants from its earliest days (c.f John Calvin's Institutes 4.16), and had persecuted […]

Related: anabaptists, Eberhard Jüngel, infant baptism, Karl Barth, paedobaptism, Rebaptism, The Sign of the Gospel, The Sign of the Gospel: Toward an Evangelical Doctrine of Infant Baptism after Karl Barth, W. Travis McMaken

Top 10 of 2018 (January 9, 2019)

My top ten posts of the year are never viral, but they are helpful to reflect back on the year to see what was helpful to the PostBarthian readers around the world, and this year is no different! What I appreciate this top ten is the diversity of theologians from […]

Related: 2018, David Bentley Hart, Eberhard Jüngel, G.C. Berkouwer, J. Gresham Machen, Jonathan Edwards, Jürgen Moltmann, Karl Barth, Tom M. Horner, top 10, top ten

Criticism of Penal Substitutionary Atonement (feat. Eberhard Jüngel) (June 1, 2018)

Penal Substitutionary Atonement (PSA) is one of many atonement theories, and is the most commonly held theory among evangelicals today. Sadly, Penal Substitutionary Atonement is wrongly assumed to be the only biblical view of atonement, and in the most egregious cases, it is tragically identified with the gospel, and anachronistically […]

Related: atonement, christus victor, Death: The Riddle and the Mystery, Eberhard Jüngel, John Calvin, Jürgen Moltmann, Karl Barth, Martin Luther, penal substitution, penal substitutionary atonement, Ransom Theory of Atonement, satisfaction theory of atonement

Eberhard Jüngel on Justification: Hans Küng and the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (September 15, 2014)

Justification (source: bloomsbury) Eberhard Jüngel is a Lutheran theologian and Tübingen professor who is author of a book on the doctrine of justification, Justification: The Heart of the Christian Faith. I've been writing about The Legacy of Hans Küng's Doctrine of Justification (JDDJ) and asking how to respond to Kung's question: "Is it […]

Related: Doctrine of Justification, Eberhard Jüngel, Hans Küng, JDDJ, Joint Declaration, Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, Justification, Justification: The Heart of the Christian Faith, Karl Barth, Pope John Paul II

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 […]

Related: Anathema, CD IV.1, CD IV/2, Church Dogmatics, Church Dogmatics IV.1, Church Dogmatics IV/2, Council of Trent, Doctrine of Justification, Eberhard Jüngel, Hans Küng, Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, Justification, Justification By Faith Alone, Karl Barth, Karl Rahner, Lutheran World Federation, Roman Catholicism, Vatican II

Sign of the Gospel: A Post-Barthian Doctrine of Infant Baptism (August 10, 2014)

The Sign of the Gospel: Toward an Evangelical Doctrine of Infant Baptism after Karl Barth by W. Travis McMaken Karl Barth's rejection of infant baptism is as infamous as it is controversial. Opponents of Barth's doctrine of baptism have defended infant baptism with the historical, covenantal and sacramental arguments, with Oscar Cullmann's Baptism […]

Related: Eberhard Jüngel, George Hunsinger, infant baptism, Karl Barth, paedobaptism, Sign of the Gospel, The Sign of the Gospel, The Sign of the Gospel: Toward an Evangelical Doctrine of Infant Baptism after Karl Barth, W. Travis McMaken