Karl Barth against the Quest of the Historical Jesus (December 17, 2014)

Composite of Jesus portraits (source: wikipedia) The Quest for the Historical Jesus that has captivated the world for the past two centuries and, perhaps, was at its pinnacle after the publication in 1906 of Albert Schweitzer's Quest of the Historical Jesus and is still going strong as evidenced by famous publications such as N.T. Wright's Jesus and the […]

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2015 Karl Barth Pastor’s Conference (December 12, 2014)

Register now for the 2015 Karl Barth Pastors Conference. The conference's title is "Karl Barth & the Mission of the Church", and will be June 24-26, 2015 at Princeton Theological Seminary. If you are a Pastor, this is an excellent conference to choose to attend this year. Speakers include: Christian […]

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Karl Barth’s use of Saga in Exposition of Scripture (November 29, 2014)

Pastor Karl Barth (source: kbarth.org) Karl Barth's Doctrine of Holy Scripture is expounded in the Church Dogmatics Vol. I/2 §19-21, yet for kinetic learners, Barth's Doctrine of Scripture may be bested learned by reading Barth's expositions of Scripture in the myriad fine print sections throughout the paragraphs of the Church Dogmatics, especially at the end of […]

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Albert Schweitzer epitomizes D.F. Strauss’ Life of Jesus (November 26, 2014)

Albert Schweitzer [source: wikipedia]Albert Schweitzer loved David Friedrich Strauss, and that's no understatement! In Schweitzer's infamous book, The Quest of the Historical Jesus: A Critical Study of Its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede [online text], there are three whole chapters dedicated to introducting D.F. Strauss (Ch. 7), summarizing his Life of Jesus and […]

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G. C. Berkouwer explains Karl Barth’s Eschatology (November 21, 2014)

Gerrit Cornelis Berkouwer  (1903-1996)[source: librarything]G.C. Berkouwer was a Dutch Reformed Theologian in the Amsterdam tradition along with theological greats including Abraham Kuyper, Herman Bavinck and H. Berkof. Berkouwer wrote an excellent introduction to Karl Barth's theology titled, The Triumph of Grace in the Theology of Karl Barth: An Introduciton and Critical […]

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Helmut Gollwitzer on How to Preach the Word (October 17, 2014)

Helmut Gollwitzer died 21 years ago today (source: wikipedia) Helmut Gollwitzer (1908-1993) died 21 years ago today. I was first introduced to this amazing theologian by Dr. W. Travis McMaken, in his recommendation of Gollwitzer's The Way To Life: Sermons in a Time of World Crisis. In the forward, Gollwitzer's amazing life […]

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Hans Kung says Catholic Justification is not Synergistic (October 6, 2014)

Hans Kung Universidad de Educación a Distancia (2011) (source: wikipedia) Hans Küng's Justification: The Doctrine of Karl Barth and a Catholic Reflection proposes a solution to the articulus stantis et cadentis ecclesiae that has captivated me, and I've been writing a series on this excellent work. In the following quotations, Küng addresses the question of whether […]

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Oliver Crisp on How to Read Karl Barth (September 28, 2014)

Deviant Calvinism (source:fortress press) In Oliver Crisp's exciting new book Deviant Calvinism: Broadening Reformed Theology, he provides a helpful summary on how to read Karl Barth. The description is particularly reminiscent of Barth's paragraph on the twofold election of Jesus Christ in the Church Dogmatics II/2 §33 that Jürgen Moltmann instructed the […]

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Karl Barth’s Last Words in the Church Dogmatics (September 18, 2014)

Karl Barth with his wife Nelly, his son-in-law Max Zellweger and his second great grandson, June 1968. (source:kbarth.org) Jürgen Moltmann once commented on Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics: "Well, we have more than 8,000 pages of Church Dogmatics from Karl Barth. And a very friendly critic once said, 'the truth cannot be so long'. […]

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Karl Barth on the Appeal to Scripture: Have We Created a Myth? (September 16, 2014)

Codex Gigas (source: wikipedia) Jesus Christ is the Word of God in the flesh. We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life. (1 John 1:1 […]

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