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All Blog Posts With Tag: Karl Rahner
Dorothee Sölle (1929–2003) analyzes the virgin birth from the perspective of liberation theology and feminist theology in her book Thinking About God: An Introduction to Theology. Sölle argues that the doctrine of the virgin birth has been polarized into two extremes by orthodox and liberal theology. She argues that orthodoxy […]
Karl Barth wrote two famous letters in August 1963 wherein he condemned Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ (1881 – 1955) as a "giant gnostic snake" that has swallowed up Jesus Christ in order to worship the "deity of evolution", and that Emil Brunner is a "harmless blind-worm" in comparison to […]
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It may surprise many Evangelicals today to learn that Martin Luther, John Calvin and the other reformers affirmed similar (or even the same) Marian Dogmas as the Catholic Church. Protestant Mariology has been in significant decline since the Reformation, and most protestants reject almost every Marian Dogma except for a […]
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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 […]
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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15 Theology Books Defining My Autobiography (January 15, 2015)
I've read over 500 theology books in the last ten years. (Some people read these many books every year!) Of all these books, there are fifteen books that stand apart as guideposts in my journey of exploration in theology. I don't recommend all of these books today, but these books […]
The Legacy of Hans Küng’s Doctrine of Justification (August 24, 2014)
Hans Küng (1928—) was ordained in 1955, and his doctoral thesis, Justification: La Doctrine de Karl Barth et Une Réflexion Catholique was published in 1957 (Justification: The Doctrine of Karl Barth and a Catholic Reflection, 1964 ET). Justification was Küng's first book and was a study of the Protestant and Roman Catholic teachings on the Doctrine of Justification […]
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Karl Barth’s Letter Endorsing Hans Küng’s Justification (August 4, 2014)
Hans Kung and Karl Barth(source: KBarth.org)
Karl Barth responded to Hans Küng's book, Justification: The Doctrine of Karl Barth and a Catholic Reflection. in the follow letter with this remarkable endorsement of Hans Küng's book! Karl Barth had written in his Church Dogmatics Vol. 4 that only a superficial Protestant would be able to accept the […]
Wolfhart Pannenberg on the History of Christology (June 9, 2014)
Wolfhart Pannenberg speaking at a CDU conference in Bonn, 1983
In Wolfhart Pannenberg's famous Christology book, Jesus: God and Man, he provided an impressive outline of how Christology as a dogma had developed historically. All Christian doctrines develop over time as the Church revises its talk about God, as Karl Barth would […]
Karl Rahner on why Genesis 1-11 is not an Eyewitness Account (April 12, 2014)
Often it is alleged that Genesis 1-11 is an eye-witness account, and even if Adam was not there in the beginning of Genesis 1-2, then God was certainly there as an eyewitness. But this will not do! Karl Rahner explains why it is a travesty to treat the proto-history of […]
