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Barth’s Barmen before Barmen: Theological Existence To-day! (June 5, 2018)
Karl Barth's most famous protest against the German Christians and the Nazi takeover of the German Evangelical Church was the Theological Declaration of Barmen (1934), but a year before Barmen, Barth wrote another similar important protest titled Theological Existence To-Day! (A Plea for Theological Freedom).
In 1933, the German Christians in Nazi […]
Penal Substitutionary Atonement (PSA) is one of many atonement theories, and is the most commonly held theory among evangelicals today. Sadly, Penal Substitutionary Atonement is wrongly assumed to be the only biblical view of atonement, and in the most egregious cases, it is tragically identified with the gospel, and anachronistically […]
Barthians: Natural Revelation! Is this the Anti-Christ? (May 23, 2018)
Karl Barth and the Barmen Declaration (1934) (May 21, 2018)
The Present Situation in Nazi Germany
Flag of the "German Christians" during Nazi Germany [1]The Barmen Declaration (1934) was originally titled the "Theological Declaration Concerning the Present Situation of the German Evangelical Church." This present situation was that the Nazis had risen to power in Germany, and Nazi sympathizers known as the "German […]
Karl Barth left his pastoral work at Safenwil in 1921 to become Honorary Professor of Reformed theology at the University of Göttingen, due to the successful first edition of his commentary on The Epistle to the Romans (Der Romerbrief, 1919). At this same time, Barth had completed the second edition […]
In part one of The Life of Karl Barth series, I discussed Karl Barth's early life from his birth in 1886 until he left the University of Marburg and his pastoral work in Geneva in 1911. In part two, I will discuss the next ten years in Barth's life when […]
Karl Barth (May 10, 1886–December 10, 1968) was a Swiss Reformed Protestant theologian and arguably the greatest theologian of the last two centuries. He was a prolific author who is most well known for his commentary on The Epistle to the Romans (2nd ed.), his thirteen volume systematic theology the Church Dogmatics (CD), and […]
Rösy Münger and Karl Barth: A Tragic Love Story (April 16, 2018)
Karl Barth's first great love was a bernese girl named Rösy Münger (1888–1925). He met her when he returned to study at the university in Bern. Barth said "I spent the happiest hours with her" [1], but their relationship ended tragically because his parents sternly disapproved of their relationship together. Karl Barth's […]
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In Karl Barth's Faith of the Church, describes the future resurrection like an unveiling of an art exhibit. Barth compares our entire lives from birth to death to an art exhibit under a table cloth, such that the art exhibit is present to all, but its true form is unrecognizable […]
Karl Rahner on Why Atheists Glorify God (March 27, 2018)
"Be merciful to those who doubt" ~ Jude 22 (NIV)
Atheists are treated poorly by many Christians today and I'm deeply disturbed by the damning statements I've often heard Christians say to atheists. Not long ago I witnessed an impassive Christian say to an atheist that they were going to hell unless […]
