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All Blog Posts With Tag: Karl Barth
Theology: Basics by Alister E. McGrath (June 18, 2012)
Alister E. McGrath is an Anglican priest, and long time professor at Oxford and Kings College as well as a prolific theology author. He is also well known for his debate with Christopher Hitchens, and other dialogues such as his interview with Richard Dawkins.
McGrath's, Theology: The Basics, is an introduction to Christian theology […]
A Short Life of Søren Kierkegaard (May 11, 2012)
Søren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855) was a Danish Philosopher and Theologian who lived in Copenhagen. Kierkegaard is most well known as an Existentialist and a critique of the Established Church (and the Church of Denmark in particular), however this is not what has drawn me to him recently.
Kierkegaard used many pseudonyms […]
Friedrich Schleiermacher's On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers (1799) (online here) is a hallmark of Liberal Protestantism, and coupled with his magnum opus, Glaubenslehre (The Christian Faith) he has produced the two most significant works of Liberal Theology and he remains as the apex of the entire system even to today. Schleiermacher is also well known […]
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Karl Barth’s “Protestant Theology in the Nineteenth Century” (March 2, 2012)
Karl Barth's "Protestant Theology in the Nineteenth Century: It's background and history" is a history book about the liberal protestant theologians from 1700-1900 AD written by an expert of this era including the most influential liberal Protestant theologians of the Enlightenment: Rousseau, Lessing, Kant, Herder, Novalis, Hegel, Schleiermacher, Wegscheider, De […]
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Valentin Ernst Löscher’s Thirteen Objections To Pietism (February 28, 2012)
Karl Barth called Valentin Ernst Löscher (1673-1749) the "last significant representative of Lutheran orthodoxy" before the church was rampaged by Pietism and the Enlightenment (see Barth's "Protestant Theology in the Nineteenth Century: Its Background and History" pg. 126, where I found this list.)
Indifference to the truth of the Gospel, boasting […]
Barth’s The Authority of the Word of God (CD I.2 §20.1) (February 22, 2012)
Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics I.2, §20.1 (pages 538-585) on "The Authority of the Word of God" has an extended discussion about the authority of the Holy Scriptures in contrast to the authority of the Church. (You may read it entirety on Google Books here.) The fundamental question is whether the […]
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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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The Church by Hans Küng (review) (October 17, 2011)
Hans Küng is a Catholic Priest and a prolific theologian, and a very controversial man. I'm drawn to his writings because he serves as aurea mediocritas between Protestantism and Catholicism. I first learned about Küng after his criticism of ...
Jonathan Edwards On God’s People Not In The Visible Church (June 10, 2011)
I came across Jonathan Edwards interesting incite into how a people group may be consider God's elect or chosen people, but also be enemies and outside of the universal visible Church. A more concise summary is in this Edward's document:Misrepresentati...
Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics Vol II.2 is the second half-volume of his "Doctrine of God" and contains Barth's Doctrine of Election. Barth emphasizes his admiration of Calvin's Doctrine of Election, and explains its superiority biblical basis to compet...
