The Angels and the Easter Bunny: Karl Barth on the difference between good saga and bad (May 12, 2022)

How are the angels in the Bible different than the Easter Bunny in traditional folklore? In Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics III/3, paragraph §51 "The Kingdom of Heaven, The Ambassadors of God, and their Opponents", he answers that "the angels and the March Hare are two different things" [1] but it […]

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Angels Are Not Personal Spirits: The Angelology of Karl Barth and Wolfhart Pannenberg (August 11, 2017)

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. […]

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Karl Barth on the Appeal to Scripture: Have We Created a Myth? (September 16, 2014)

Codex Gigas (source: wikipedia) Jesus Christ is the Word of God in the flesh. We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life. (1 John 1:1 […]

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