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All Blog Posts With Tag: Incarnation
T. F. Torrance on Jesus’ Verdict Against Natural Theology (February 27, 2018)
Thomas F. Torrance makes a clever argument against natural theology in his book Incarnation: The Person and Life of Christ. It's a well known fact that Karl Barth was firmly against natural revelation (although he left the door open to natural theology late in life). So it is no surprise that […]
I believe in the Virgin Birth —Karl Barth (December 6, 2017)
Karl Barth believed in the Virgin Birth, unlike many of his followers and opponents such as Emil Brunner who rejected the Virgin Birth, as well as Wolfhart Pannenberg, Jurgen Moltmann, Rudolf Bultmann and many other. Barth didn't believe in the Virgin Birth due to a pre-commitment to Biblical nativity stories […]
The Myth of the Unincarnate Word (logos asarkos vs logos incarnandus) (August 26, 2014)
Eastern Orthodox Icon, Resurrection: Harrowing of Hell (source: wikipedia)
The Johannine Prologue (John 1:1-18) is a purple passage of the bible, and "In the beginning was the Word (λόγος), and the Word (λόγος) was with God, and the Word (λόγος) was God." (John 1:1 RSV) is among the most famous verses in the […]
Wolfhart Pannenberg is famous for seconding Emil Brunner's rejection of the Virgin Birth as a late accretion into the New Testament. The question immediately arises, "How can anyone reject a statement in the Apostles' Creed?" The short answer is that Pannenberg affirms the Apostles' Creed, but with some revision in […]