Karl Barth’s Doctrine of the Word of God in Threefold Form (August 20, 2018)

Updated: May 15th, 2019 Is the Bible the Word of God? Karl Barth answered No! because "the Bible is not in itself and as such God’s past revelation" [1] and that "we thus do the Bible poor and unwelcome honour if we equate it directly with this other, with revelation itself." […]

Related: bible, Bible is not the Word of God, CD I/1, Church Dogmatics I/1, Holy Bible, Karl Barth, proclamation, Revelation, scripture, scriptures, The Doctrine of the Word of God, threefold word of god, Word of God, Word of God in Threefold Form

Abraham Kuyper and Karl Barth on Creation as Revelation (June 10, 2013)

In Judeo-Christian history of thought, there's always been core belief that God is creator, and that the world has not always existed but was creation by God in the beginning. (Hebrews 11:3 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen […]

Related: abraham kuyper, Church Dogmatics, creation, encyclopedia of sacred theology: its principles, Karl Barth, Revelation, systematic theology, Wolfhart Pannenberg

Abraham Kuyper on Hegel, Schleiermacher and Natural Theology (June 22, 2012)

Abraham Kuyper Abraham Kuyper (1837–1920) was a Dutch Reformed Theologian and Political, and in his massive three-volume Encyclopedia of Sacred Theology, I've quoted Kuyper's assessment of Hegel and Schleiermacher in regards to Natural Revelation. Beginning with the introduction in John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion, the Reformed Church has defined its epistemology […]

Related: abraham kuyper, antithesis, christian faith, dialetic, encyclopedia of sacred theology: its principles, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Hegel, institutes of the christian religion, John Calvin, Natural Revelation, Revelation, synthesis, thesis

Church Dogmatics Vol I.2: The Doctrine of the Word of God by Karl Barth (February 20, 2012)

Karl Barth is difficult to explain, which explains why so many people dismiss Barth without reading what he wrote. Engaging With Barth requires reading his Church Dogmatics (CD), which I have been doing so at a good pace yet out of order. It's been difficult to procure an affordable copy […]

Related: anhypostasis, CD I/1, CD I/2, CD II/1, CD II/2, christ jesus, christology, Church Dogmatics, Church Dogmatics I/1, Church Dogmatics I/2, Church Dogmatics II/1, Church Dogmatics II/2, enhypostatis, Jesus, jesus christ, Karl Barth, mariology, Revelation, The Doctrine of the Word of God, Word of God

Jonathn Edward’s Timeline for the Book of Revelation (August 1, 2009)

Seven Periods of the Apocalypse, According to Moses LowmanFrom Jonathan Edwards Works: Apocalyptic Writings (WJE Online Vol. 5), pg 55-59Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703 – March 22, 1758) based his interpretation of Revelation on Moses Lowman's (...

Related: Jonathan Edwards, Moses Lowman, Revelation