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All Blog Posts With Tag: Karl Barth
Karl Barth’s Rejection of the Visible and Invisible Church (April 29, 2016)
Is the Church both visible and invisible? Karl Barth says No! He said the Church is visible, so it is wrong to apply the idea of invisibility to the Church. Since the Reformation, the Church has been commonly proclaimed to be both visible and invisible, and sadly since then there has been an increasing emphasis […]
Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics Original Publication Dates (April 21, 2016)
Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics was a theological summa published between 1932 and 1967 that spanned 9257 pages. The English translations lagged many years behind the German original publications, so as an English reader of Barth, I have struggled to find the original publication dates of each volume of the Church Dogmatics. So, I've created […]
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The PostBarthian is featured at BioLogos! (April 11, 2016)
The PostBarthian is now featured at BioLogos! Click here to read my current article at BioLogos: Karl Barth says Yes to Creation and Evolution. Don't miss it! And, be sure to read the comments.
Karl Barth’s Letter to Francis Schaeffer (April 2, 2016)
Karl Barth wrote the following letter to Francis Schaeffer in 1950 that is similar to his response to Cornelius Van Til and assessment of Billy Graham.
Bergli, Oberrieden, September 3, 1950
Rev. Francis A. Schaeffer
Châlet des Frênes
Champéry
Dear Mr. Schaeffer!
I acknowledge receipt of your letter from August 28[1], and of your paper "The New Modernism."[2] […]
Karl Barth: Believing in Demons makes us Demonic (March 9, 2016)
We do not believe in demons or deny their existence,
but we must resolutely disbelieve in demons.
Demons! Those fiery red devils that possess everyone. What is to be made of these evil spirits? Are they in every nook and cranny? Or has the Enlightenment evicted them from the world? Karl Barth's dialectical answer is that "we cannot […]
What May Karl Barth Make of Evangelicals? (February 24, 2016)
D. A. Carson fired fiery arrows at Karl Barth in his interview at The Gospel Coalition (TGC) this week: What Should Evangelicals Make of Karl Barth? Carson is a pinnacle contemporary Evangelical scholar in the Reformed tradition, so I was excited to see him talking about Karl Barth. I was saddened that […]
Karl Barth was a PostCalvinist and not an Evangelical Calvinist (February 12, 2016)
In 1922, Karl Barth loved John Calvin so much that he wrote a letter to his friend Eduard Thurneysen to confess that he could spent the rest of his life with Calvin alone! (♥) This short letter, which I've quoted below, has become so famous that anytime Calvin and […]
The Tale of the Whale and Elephant: Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann (December 30, 2015)
Karl Barth and Rudolf Bultmann did not get along. A long long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, they were once friends, but as each developed their own theological program, their alliance deteriorated into an operatic tragedy. In the Christmas season of 1952, Barth and Bultmann exchanged a famous […]
Karl Barth Christmas Book Wishlist (December 8, 2015)
It's Christmas season, and it is a great time to give the gift of Karl Barth! Here are my recommendations for which Barth books to buy for yourself or loved ones this holiday season. I've recommended below two editions of The Church Dogmatics and my top ten books by Karl Barth […]
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PostBarthian’s Top Ten of 2015 (December 4, 2015)
It's been a great year and there are more postbarthian than ever before! Here are the top ten posts from 2015 chosen from a sample of 100,000 postbarthian visitors. This years list is dominated by Karl Barth, unlike the eclectic list from 2014's top posts. The following list is ordered in […]
