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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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T. F. Torrance is a scientific theologian. In a way, all theology is science, as Karl Barth said at the very beginning of the Church Dogmatics I/1: "As a theological discipline dogmatics is the scientific self-examination of the Christian Church with respect to the content of its distinctive talk about […]
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The Natural Revelation Argument (April 3, 2018)
T. F. Torrance on Jesus’ Verdict Against Natural Theology (February 27, 2018)
Thomas F. Torrance makes a clever argument against natural theology in his book Incarnation: The Person and Life of Christ. It's a well known fact that Karl Barth was firmly against natural revelation (although he left the door open to natural theology late in life). So it is no surprise that […]
Jürgen Moltmann said the Ecological Crisis has provoked a New Natural Theology (November 23, 2017)
Is Karl Barth's No! to natural revelation the final word? Is God never revealed through nature? (i.e. natural revelation). May we learn nothing about God from studying nature? (i.e. natural theology). For a time, Karl Barth's Nein! had closed the door to natural theology, while the Nazis were in power, and […]
Review of my article, "Karl Barth's No to Natural Revelation: Secular Parables of the Kingdom"
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Karl Barth is the most famous (and infamous) opponent of Natural Theology in the world. However, in the final volume of the Church Dogmatics, Barth developed a Natural Theology of his own, that he titled "Secular Parables of the Kingdom" (c.f. CD IV/3.1, §69.2 The Light of Life). Did Barth flip-flop on Natural Revelation in […]
At the end of the Church Dogmatics, Karl Barth took a surprising turn in his affirmation of "secular parables" that made many wonder if Barth had reversed his resounding Nein! to Emil Brunner many years prior. In the Church Dogmatics Vol. IV/3.1, §69.2 "The Light of Life", Barth develops his own […]
Jürgen Moltmann on Unfinished Summas and Natural Theology (July 15, 2014)
Unfinished Barcelona Cathedral (Sagrada)
Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics is 8,000 pages and unfinished. Thomas Aquinas' great theological system, The Summa Theologica, is unfinished too. All the medieval summas are unfinished in the same way as the medieval summas are unfinished. The post-magesterial reformers of the 16th and 17th century also produced […]
Yes to Us All: Karl Barth’s Final Words to Emil Brunner (June 20, 2014)
~ Updated and Revised: February 21st, 2019 ~
Karl Barth and Emil Brunner is the greatest tragedy since Romeo and Juliet. The friendship between Barth and Brunner is nearly as famous as its tragic demise. Brunner's famous essay "Nature and Grace" was responded to with a loud "Nein!" by Karl Barth that […]