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All Blog Posts With Tag: Jesus
In Jesus: A New Vision (Spirit, Culture, and the Life of Discipleship), Dr. Marcus Borg (1942–2015) provides a briefly and helpful commentary on the stories of Jesus walking on water and stilling the storm in the Gospel of Mark 4:35-41 and 6:45-52. (Variations of these two miracles appear in Mt 8:23–27; Lk 8:22–25 […]
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 […]
In Jürgen Moltmann's Introduction to Christian Theology, he expresses the necessity of the resurrection of Jesus as an event of history. Moltmann believes that the resurrection gave birth to the Church, the Gospels, and the entire Christian faith. Moltmann does not believe that the Christian faith began with the Easter […]
Karl Barth on Jesus Calming the Storm (November 11, 2016)
The Miracle of Jesus Calming the Storm is my favorite passage from the life of Jesus, so I was delighted to find Karl Barth's eye-popping exposition of it in a small print section at the end of the Church Dogmatics IV/3.2. Barth believes this miracle is not isolated to novice Galilean […]
Church Dogmatics Vol I.2: The Doctrine of the Word of God by Karl Barth (February 20, 2012)
Karl Barth is difficult to explain, which explains why so many people dismiss Barth without reading what he wrote. Engaging With Barth requires reading his Church Dogmatics (CD), which I have been doing so at a good pace yet out of order. It's been difficult to procure an affordable copy […]
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Christ and Culture Revisited by D.A. Carson (Review) (February 12, 2009)
D.A. Carson is arguably the greatest N.T. Theologian alive today. Carson has published over 50 books and this week I read one of his latest books: Christ and Culture Revisited (April 2008) and I highly recommend this book! D.A. Carson revisits H. Richa...