15 Theology Books Defining My Autobiography (January 15, 2015)

I've read over 500 theology books in the last ten years. (Some people read these many books every year!) Of all these books, there are fifteen books that stand apart as guideposts in my journey of exploration in theology. I don't recommend all of these books today, but these books […]

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Karl Barth’s use of Saga in Exposition of Scripture (November 29, 2014)

Pastor Karl Barth (source: kbarth.org) Karl Barth's Doctrine of Holy Scripture is expounded in the Church Dogmatics Vol. I/2 §19-21, yet for kinetic learners, Barth's Doctrine of Scripture may be bested learned by reading Barth's expositions of Scripture in the myriad fine print sections throughout the paragraphs of the Church Dogmatics, especially at the end of […]

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Albert Schweitzer epitomizes D.F. Strauss’ Life of Jesus (November 26, 2014)

Albert Schweitzer [source: wikipedia]Albert Schweitzer loved David Friedrich Strauss, and that's no understatement! In Schweitzer's infamous book, The Quest of the Historical Jesus: A Critical Study of Its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede [online text], there are three whole chapters dedicated to introducting D.F. Strauss (Ch. 7), summarizing his Life of Jesus and […]

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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 […]

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George Hunsinger on Ecumenism (May 22, 2014)

The First Ecumenical Council George Hunsinger's book, Eucharist and Ecumenism: Let Us Keep the Feast (Current Issues in Theology), is a magisterial work on both the Eucharist and on Ecumenism. It's significantly changed how I view other Christian Church traditions, and caused me to embrace Transelementation as the the correct view of […]

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Review of Karl Barth and Evangelical Theology (January 20, 2014)

Karl Barth and Evangelical Theology: Convergences and Divergences, edited by Sung Wook Chung, arrived via Interlibrary Loan, and after reading it, I have some comments about the best essays in this book, and will politely skip over the ones that I graciously that I did not, so to speak, enjoy. […]

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