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 […]

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Adam Leaving the Father and Mother He Never Had (July 10, 2014)

Early Christian depiction of Adam and Eve in the Catacombs of Marcellinus and Peter Dietrich Bonhoeffer in bold fashion comments on Genesis 2:24 that "the narrator is obviously stumbling". This is one of many bold and enlightening sections of his book, Creation and Fall, Temptation: Two Biblical Studies, and one that is foundational to […]

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