The individualistic understanding of Jesus as “my personal savior” is a catastrophic consequence of capitalism – Dorothee Sölle (November 25, 2019)

Dorothee Sölle (1929–2003) joins the chorus of theologians–including Jürgen Moltmann, T.F. Torrance, and many others–who have criticized the individualistic reduction of Christianity to "a personal relationship with Jesus". In her book Thinking About God: An Introduction to Theology, Sölle keenly perceived that capitalism in America has caused everything to be […]

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Barth’s Barmen before Barmen: Theological Existence To-day! (June 5, 2018)

Karl Barth's most famous protest against the German Christians and the Nazi takeover of the German Evangelical Church was the Theological Declaration of Barmen (1934), but a year before Barmen, Barth wrote another similar important protest titled Theological Existence To-Day! (A Plea for Theological Freedom).  In 1933, the German Christians in Nazi […]

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Karl Barth and the Barmen Declaration (1934) (May 21, 2018)

The Present Situation in Nazi Germany  Flag of the "German Christians" during Nazi Germany [1]The Barmen Declaration (1934) was originally titled the "Theological Declaration Concerning the Present Situation of the German Evangelical Church." This present situation was that the Nazis had risen to power in Germany, and Nazi sympathizers known as the "German […]

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