Karl Barth’s rejection of the preexistent Word of God: Bruce McCormack’s response to Richard Bauckham (April 15, 2022)

Karl Barth famously argued that Jesus has always possessed a human nature from the beginning of creation, therefore a so-called preexistent Word of God (i.e. Logos) without human nature never existed. Karl Barth affirmed the Virgin Birth, but this does not mean that the second person (or mode-of-being as Barth […]

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“The real text of New Testament revelation is the humanity of Jesus” — T. F. Torrance (February 10, 2019)

Jesus Christ is the revelation of the Word of God in human form, and the entire Bible (in the words of Karl Barth) is a human witness to Jesus Christ who is the very Word of God. Many Christians wrongly identify the Bible as the Word of God, but the […]

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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 […]

Related: CD IV.1, Church Dogmatics, Church Dogmatics IV.1, Incarnation, Karl Barth, logos asarkos, logos incarnandus, logos incarnantus, Mary, Virgin Birth

The Myth of the Unincarnate Word (logos asarkos vs logos incarnandus) (August 26, 2014)

Eastern Orthodox Icon, Resurrection: Harrowing of Hell (source: wikipedia) The Johannine Prologue (John 1:1-18) is a purple passage of the bible, and "In the beginning was the Word (λόγος), and the Word (λόγος) was with God, and the Word (λόγος) was God." (John 1:1 RSV) is among the most famous verses in the […]

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