Michael Servetus: Saint, Heretic and Martyr (Part 3: A Radical Theology) (October 5, 2018)

Michael Servetus' Radical Theology Michael Servetus was a Spaniard "born about 1511 in Villanueva [de Sigena], 160 miles upriver from Zaragoza, Servetus was [John] Calvin's close contemporary" [1]  Servetus' radical theology did not originate from an abnormally carnal nature. Servetus had an impeccably moral character, and perhaps it was Servetus' saintly ethic […]

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Karl Barth’s Argument Against Afterlife (October 8, 2015)

Does Karl Barth believe in an afterlife? Barth answers Nein! Barth says that believing in an afterlife is "pursuing pagan dreams of good times after death" and that the New Testament teaches that time comes to an end on the last day at the "final trump", when "time shall be no more." Karl Barth's argument […]

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Jürgen Moltmann’s Proposed Additions to the Creed (December 30, 2014)

~ Updated on 12 December, 2018 ~ The Apostles' Creed does not say anything about Jesus' life after he was 'born of the Virgin Mary' until he was 'crucified under Pontius Pilate'. The other great Christian symbol, the Nicene Creed, likewise does not inform us of the person and work of Jesus […]

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George Hunsinger on Ecumenism (May 22, 2014)

The First Ecumenical Council George Hunsinger's book, Eucharist and Ecumenism: Let Us Keep the Feast (Current Issues in Theology), is a magisterial work on both the Eucharist and on Ecumenism. It's significantly changed how I view other Christian Church traditions, and caused me to embrace Transelementation as the the correct view of […]

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