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All Blog Posts With Tag: Good Friday

Jürgen Moltmann's The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology is one of the greatest theology books every published on the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, and an excellent book to read today on Good Friday. Moltmann argues that the theology of the cross (theologia […]
 
On Good Friday in 1957, Karl Barth preached to the Basel prisoners (as he often did) a sermon he titled "Criminals with Him" based on Luke 23:33: "They crucified him with the criminals, one on either side of him." I've heard many Good Friday sermons that either focus on the […]
 
Update 2019-04-17: For a revised and updated version of this post read: Karl Barth on Good Friday: the criminals crucified with Jesus formed the first Christian community Karl Barth often preached to the Basel city prisoners at the end of his life, and these sermons were published in a collection […]