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All Blog Posts With Tag: Karl Barth
John Calvin: A Dialectical Theologian (May 21, 2017)
Karl Barth was fascinated with John Calvin, and he called Calvin a "demonic power" but also in the same breath, Barth said he could "spend all the rest of my life just with Calvin." Barth was fixated with John Calvin, so it is a perrennial desire of mine to reappropriate Calvin for good, and […]
Dwight L. Moody (1837—1899) was born into a large poor family in a small town of Massachusetts, and moved to Boston when he was 17 to sell shoes and find fortune, but found Jesus instead, and become one of the most influential and famous revivalist preachers in American history, and […]
Errors of Inerrancy #9: Inerrancy turns the Bible into a Paper Pope. (April 17, 2017)
[The Errors of Inerrancy: A ten-part series on why Biblical Inerrancy censors the Scriptures and divides Evangelicals.]
The Errors of Inerrancy #9: Inerrancy turns the Bible into a Paper Pope.
Biblical Inerrancy not only causes misunderstanding of the Bible, it also causes misuse of the Bible. When Biblical Inerrancy abolishes the distinction between […]
The Church Dogmatics (CD) is an unfinished theological summa. Karl Barth started the Church Dogmatics in 1932, and had planned five volumes of the Church Dogmatics, but abandoned it near the end of his life in 1967, before completing the fourth volume. We possess a fragment on baptism from the final part of volume […]
The relationship between Law and Gospel is a fierce perennial debate, especially between the Lutheran and Reformed Churches. The Lutheran doctrine of Law and Gospel tends towards dualism and the Reformed tends towards identity, and although the Lutheran approach has had wider acceptance (even by much of the Reformed Churches), the […]
Karl Barth on the Pentecost: Jesus is Standing in the Midst (March 22, 2017)
In the early 1920's, Karl Barth preached a sermon on Pentecost to his tiny church in Safenwil, Switzerland. In this sermon, "Come, Creator Spirit!", Barth says that Christians today have much more in common with the strangers and immigrants who came together at Pentecost, than to the Apostles; these immigrants […]
Moltmann, Barth and Pannenberg by Thor Rasmussen (March 18, 2017)
Jürgen Moltmann, Karl Barth, and Wolfhart Pannenberg by Thor Rasmussen
My longtime friend and talented artist, Thor Rasmussen, graciously created these amazing illustrations of Jürgen Moltmann, Karl Barth and Wolfhart Pannenberg. I've always loved Thor's artwork, especially his illustrations and asked him to create these illustrations of three of my favorite theologians, in […]
Karl Barth proposed that the Trinitarian formula of "one God in three persons" be updated to "one God in three modes of being" (or "... ways of being"). Is Barth teaching Sabellian modalism? No! The reason for the change, is that Barth believed that the word "person" has substantially changed in meaning to include an "attribute […]
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Professor Karl Barth, May We Believe in Eternal Life? (March 4, 2017)
Karl Barth appeared on a radio program called "What Do You Think, Professor?" near the end of his life (1960's), where he answered bible and theology questions similar to Hank Hanegraaff's old famous radio program "The Bible Answer Man". A caller asked Barth if in light of parapsychology, interaction with the dead […]
A Shared Mercy by Jon Coutts (Review) (February 27, 2017)
Dr. John Coutts [1]Jon Coutts' A Shared Mercy: Karl Barth on Forgiveness and the Church is an exploration into Karl Barth's theology of forgiveness, and it is also a commentary on Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics: The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Volume 4 (CD IV). A Shared Mercy is a stopgap between dogmatics in the academy and […]
