Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the Scientific Naïveté of the Ancient World in Genesis 1 (July 2, 2014)

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 […]

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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 […]

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