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An Explorer’s Guide to Karl Barth by David Guretzki (Review) (February 6, 2017)

David Guretzki's An Explorer's Guide to Karl Barth is a hitchhiker's guide to Karl Barth for the average joe. Karl Barth is notoriously difficult to epitomize and summarize, and other so-called "introductory" books on Karl Barth are very, very difficult to read. Guretzki's Karl Barth is a book that I feel comfortable giving to […]

Karl Barth says Jesus Christ is the hope of non-Christians (February 3, 2017)

Jesus Christ is the Savior of all the World, especially those who believe (1 Tim 4:10), but not only those who believe, because non-Christians are included too! It is true that non-Christians do not have faith or hope in Jesus, but Jesus remains to be their hope, despite their disbelief […]

How Jürgen Moltmann Reads and Interprets the Bible (January 31, 2017)

How do we know that we understand the Bible when we read it? The word "hermeneutics" refers to the way we read and interpret the Bible, and if our hermeneutical approach is wrong, then we will not understand the Bible. Often disagreements in theology come down to people reading the […]

Marty Folsom’s Face to Face Vol. 3: Sharing God’s Life (Review) (January 28, 2017)

Dr. Marty Folsom is a personal friend of mine, and fellow denizen of the Pacific Northwest, and has the largest private theological library I've ever seen (with an entire bookcase full of Karl Barth books too.) Dr. Folsom is a worldwide leading theologian in Trinitarian Relational Theology and an expert […]

The Errors of Inerrancy: #7 Biblical Inerrancy’s Myth-Making Machine, Unveiled (January 26, 2017)

[The Errors of Inerrancy: A ten-part series on why Biblical Inerrancy censors the Scriptures and divides Evangelicals.] #7. Biblical Inerrancy's Myth-Making Machine, Unveiled Proponents of Biblical Inerrancy perpetuate a myth that the Church has always declared the Bible to be error-free, including minute details of science and history. History tells us a different story, […]

James Barr asks “Was Karl Barth a Fundamentalist?” (January 19, 2017)

James Barr interrogates Karl Barth in his book "Fundamentalism" to determine if Barth is a fundamentalist after all. Barr tells a story about a meeting between John Baillie and Karl Barth, in which Baillie strives to get Barth to confess that Methuselah did not really live 969 years as it […]

The God Who Saves: A Dogmatic Sketch by David W. Congdon (Review) (January 12, 2017)

The God Who Saves: A Dogmatic Sketch by David W. Congdon is a brilliant and well written theological book, and my favorite book published in 2016. In The God Who Saves, Congdon leverages his expertise in Bultmann's existential theology and acute knowledge of Karl Barth to produce this eye-popping dogmatic sketch of a universalist […]

John Calvin’s Spectacles of Scripture (January 5, 2017)

John Calvin's Biblical Eyeglasses The Reformed theologian, John Calvin, said the Bible is like eyeglasses that allow us to see God and without the spectacles of Scripture, we are like an old person with blurry vision and unable to see God or or see God in Creation. In the event of reading the Scriptures […]

Karl Barth on The Church in Excess and Defect (December 15, 2016)

Church in Excess and Defect St. Augustine said that the Church is a whore, but she is our mother. In time, we all experience the inadequacies of the Church, and this is especially true for Protestants, because few people remain members of the same church for the duration of their lives. […]

The Four Eschatological Paragraphs of Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics (December 5, 2016)

Karl Barth's Eschatology: An Introduction Karl Barth wrote about Eschatology throughout the 75 paragraphs (i.e. sections §'s) of the Church Dogmatics, but there are four paragraphs in particular that elucidates Barth's doctrine of last things. In this post, I will provide a sketch of Barth's eschatology writings in the Church Dogmatics […]