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All Blog Posts With Tag: Karl Barth
The Resurrection Appearances: 3. Faith in the Empty Tomb is an Empty Faith (September 25, 2017)
The Resurrection Appearances: A Seven Part Series
Part 3. Faith in the Empty Tomb is an Empty Faith
In part three of the Resurrection Appearances series, I've compiled three theologians who reject the historicity of the empty tomb stories in the New Testament: Wolfhart Pannenberg, Raymond E. Brown, and Karl Barth. All three […]
The Resurrection Appearances: 1. The Argument for Historical Facticity (September 16, 2017)
The Resurrection Appearances: A Seven Part Series
Part 1. The Argument For Historical Facticity
Is the resurrection of Jesus Christ a historical fact? In a fascinating and illuminating section of Wolfhart's Pannenberg's Systematic Theology, Vol. 2, he critically examines the New Testament witness regarding the resurrection appearances of Jesus and the reports of the […]
What are angels? Evangelicals are so infatuated with angelic myths, that it's almost impossible to answer! From ancient times, to this very day, the movement of the stars, lightning strikes and earthquakes have been explained by angelic activity, but now all these events may be entirely explained by modern science. […]
The 1957 Harper & Row Publishers english edition of Ludwig Feuerbach's infamous Essence of Christianity contains an all-star cast, including a foreword by H. Richard Niebuhr, a long introduction by Karl Barth, and was translated by George Eliot (a pseudonym for Mary Ann Evans, who also translated D. F. Strauss's similarly […]
Karl Barth on Marriage as a Life-Partnership (July 17, 2017)
In the Church Dogmatics III/4, §54.1 Man and Woman, Karl Barth provides an outline of "the concepts, ideas and realities" that "make up marriage." Barth begins by defining marriage as "something which fixes and makes concrete the encounter and interrelation of man and woman in the form of the unique, unrepeatable […]
Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Last Meal (July 7, 2017)
Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768–1834) was a German Protestant theologian and philosopher that is frequently called the "Father of Liberal Protestantism." Schleiermacher is arguably the most influential theologian after John Calvin and before Karl Barth, and his most influential books are On Religion: Speeches to its Cultural Despisers and his systematic theology, The Christian Faith. […]
REVIEW: Karl Barth in Plain English by Stephen D. Morrison (June 28, 2017)
Stephen D. Morrison is a friend of mine, and we've had correspondence for years, especially through the Karl Barth Discussion Group (KBDG). So I was encouraged to see KBDG mentioned in the acknowledgements of his new book, Karl Barth In Plain English. Stephen is a lay theologian, like myself, and one of the few, […]
Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics Ended At A Single Stroke (June 23, 2017)
Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics is an unfinished summa theologica, and theological summas are almost always unfinished, and end unexpectedly and abruptly. So it was with Karl Barth as well. In the Christmas season of 1964, Karl Barth suffered a stroke that robbed him of his speech for half a day. Barth […]
Karl Barth on Three Types of Glorification in the New Testament (June 14, 2017)
Why do we need to glorify God? Is God needy? Karl Barth answers that we are unable to glorify God! The question presupposes the wrong answer. Glorification isn't something people can do to God, because God is already glorious! We cannot make God more glorious at all! The problem is […]
Jürgen Moltmann on the End of Time and Eternity (June 1, 2017)
Time and Eternity
Time and Eternity is a challenging theological puzzle to understand (and explain!) Biblical speaking, Eternity is not the same as endless-Time. Time is a one-way arrow of successive moments that started 'in the beginning' (Gen 1:1) that runs irreversibly forward until the 'last day' when 'time shall be no more' […]
