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All Blog Posts With Tag: Karl Barth
Jürgen Moltmann’s Criticism of Karl Barth’s Eschatology (March 2, 2018)
Karl Barth's eschatology is a topic I continually revisit because it is a ingenious solution problems in both futuristic eschatology and realized eschatology, however Barth's conclusions raises new problems that are deeply disturbing. Jürgen Moltmann improves upon Barth's eschatology, by going through it (in a similar way as Wolfhart Pannenberg), […]
Karl Barth on the Church’s human talk about god (February 26, 2018)
Karl Barth said that everything the Church confesses may be described as "human talk about god". Not all human talk is about god but everything that the Church speaks is human talk and this includes the biblical writings, the creeds and other symbols, prayers, preaching, and virtually everything it expresses. […]
Our God Loves Justice: An Introduction to Helmut Gollwitzer by Dr. W. Travis McMaken is my favorite book published in 2017. I know I said this about another book, but that was before I read McMaken's "Golli" (a nickname bestowed upon Gollwitzer by his students, and my nickname for this book)[1]. […]
Karl Barth on Atheism, Eternal Punishment and the Final Judgment (January 9, 2018)
Insights: Karl Barth's Reflections on the Life of Faith is a short book containing one-page insights on different topics selected from Karl Barth's writings by his assistant Eberhard Busch. One of the last insights in the book is called "Nothing Will Be Lost" wherein Barth discusses the final Judgment. Barth believed that there […]
Karl Barth’s praise of G. C. Berkouwer and apology to the Calvinists (January 8, 2018)
Among Karl Barth's greatest enemies were the American and Dutch Calvinists (especially the American Dutch Calvinist Cornelius Van Til and his minions). These 20th century Calvinists were different than the neo-Calvinism popular today because they proudly called themselves Fundamentalists and wished to regress the church and theology back to 16th century […]
Top Ten of 2017 (January 1, 2018)
It's been a great year at the PostBarthian. Overall blog traffic in 2017 is 160% higher than 2016. It's also been a great year on social media too: Our @PostBarthian twitter has almost 16k followers (up from 10k last January), and our Postbarthian facebook page is doing well too.
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I believe in the Virgin Birth —Karl Barth (December 6, 2017)
Karl Barth believed in the Virgin Birth, unlike many of his followers and opponents such as Emil Brunner who rejected the Virgin Birth, as well as Wolfhart Pannenberg, Jurgen Moltmann, Rudolf Bultmann and many other. Barth didn't believe in the Virgin Birth due to a pre-commitment to Biblical nativity stories […]
I've been deathly ill and confined to my bed for the last week, so it's given me time to reflect upon sleep. Karl Barth described human sleeping as "little images of the great and only uprising of Christ in his resurrection." So, we may reflect upon the revelation of Jesus […]
Karl Barth on the Disorder of Re-Baptism (November 29, 2017)
Karl Barth opposed infant baptism in the final fragment of the Church Dogmatics IV/4 but he also opposed re-baptism! Barth believed that infant baptism (or paedobaptism) was a disorder that the church needed to correct by delaying baptism until a person desired to be baptized and gave their consent to it […]
Jürgen Moltmann said the Ecological Crisis has provoked a New Natural Theology (November 23, 2017)
Is Karl Barth's No! to natural revelation the final word? Is God never revealed through nature? (i.e. natural revelation). May we learn nothing about God from studying nature? (i.e. natural theology). For a time, Karl Barth's Nein! had closed the door to natural theology, while the Nazis were in power, and […]
