Karl Barth’s rejection of the preexistent Word of God: Bruce McCormack’s response to Richard Bauckham (April 15, 2022)

Karl Barth famously argued that Jesus has always possessed a human nature from the beginning of creation, therefore a so-called preexistent Word of God (i.e. Logos) without human nature never existed. Karl Barth affirmed the Virgin Birth, but this does not mean that the second person (or mode-of-being as Barth […]

Related: Bruce McCormack, Fourth Gospel, Karl Barth, logos asarkos, logos ensarkos, logos incarnandus, logos incarnantus, prologue, Richard Bauckham, The Humility of the Eternal God

The Gospel of Lazarus: Oscar Cullmann on Why Lazarus of Bethany is the Author of the Fourth Gospel (October 23, 2018)

Who was the author of the Fourth Gospel? Tradition has identified John the Apostle as the author of it (or a circle of his disciples, i.e. the Johannine Community), and some early manuscripts have added the heading "The Gospel According to John" to the beginning or end of the Fourth […]

Related: Apostle John, Fourth Gospel, Gospel of John), John, Lazarus, Lazarus of Bethany, Oscar Cullmann, The New Testament, The New Testament: an Introduction for the General Reader