Karl Barth’s letter in response to Cornelius Van Til’s questions (April 29, 2014)

~ Updated and Revised: February 21st, 2019 ~ In the following letter in the book Karl Barth: Letters 1961-1968, Karl Barth says that Cornelius Van Til considered him to be "possibly the worst heretic of all time". It is well known that that Van Til despised Barth and wrote two books against his theologian, […]

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B.B. Warfield against Amyrauldism (Hypothetical Universalism) (January 31, 2014)

Moïse Amyraut (1596 – 1664) was a Huguenot, as my own ancestors were as well, and this name means French Calvinist. Moses Amyraut was of the school of Saumer, and this man is interesting because of his modified Calvinism, that allowed for Hypothetical Universalism and hence became the eponymous founder of Amyrauldism. A […]

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Review of Karl Barth and Evangelical Theology (January 20, 2014)

Karl Barth and Evangelical Theology: Convergences and Divergences, edited by Sung Wook Chung, arrived via Interlibrary Loan, and after reading it, I have some comments about the best essays in this book, and will politely skip over the ones that I graciously that I did not, so to speak, enjoy. […]

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Karl Barth on modern Biblicism: is it an Absolutism of the Enlightenment? (October 28, 2013)

Karl Barth I found the following quotation from Karl Barth in his Church Dogmatics I.2 on the problem of modern Biblicism. Biblicism may be described as the error of turning the excellent doctrine of sola scriptura of the Reformers into the erroneous idea of solo scriptura. It is also a distortion […]

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Sign of the Gospel: Why my children are being baptized (October 25, 2013)

My family has been members for years at Mars Hill Church. I served there in various ministries, as a Deacon, and for the past two years as a Pastor. This summer, we left Mars Hill to join Trinitas Church, a church plant within the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). Although […]

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Karl Barth On The Three Well-Known Theories for Capital Punishment. (October 4, 2013)

Jean-Léon Gérôme - The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer In Karl Barth's criticism of Capital Punishment, he provides a very good summary of the three best arguments for Capital Punishment, because he continues on to criticize and deconstruct each of them.  1) According to the first theory, which is not only the oldest and […]

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Karl Barth on the differences between Catholics and Protestant (August 2, 2013)

In a letter to Thomas Wipf in Zurich on October 31, 1963, Karl Barth wrote from Basel a helpful summary of the points of disagreements between Roman Catholics and Protestants. Karl Barth had many Roman Catholic friends, such as Hans Küng whom was a principle character at Vatican II. These […]

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Karl Barth on the Temptation of Jesus in the Wilderness (July 17, 2013)

Karl Barth's excellent explanation of three temptations of Jesus by Satan in the wilderness in the small print of his extended discussion of "§59.2 The Judge Judged in Our Place" of his Church Dogmatics IV.1, may be the best exegesis of this event I've encountered. (I've included a long quote of the text below.) 1) […]

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Karl Barth on the Five Abrogrations in the Federal Theology of Johannes Coccejus (June 26, 2013)

Peter A. Lillback suggested in his book, "Binding of God, The: Calvin's Role in the Development of Covenant Theology", that John Calvin had Proto-Covenant Theology ideas, because Covenant Theology was developed after Calvin by his followers. Calvin's teaching on Covenant Theology, especially in the Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book […]

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Abraham Kuyper and Karl Barth on Creation as Revelation (June 10, 2013)

In Judeo-Christian history of thought, there's always been core belief that God is creator, and that the world has not always existed but was creation by God in the beginning. (Hebrews 11:3 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen […]

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