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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Karl Barth says Yes to Creation and Evolution (Expanded Edition) (May 2, 2016)

(This is an expanded edition of an article that was originally published at biologos.org)  Evangelicals today are faced with many hard questions on the doctrine of creation, such as how the biblical creation stories are reconciled with evolutionary science, how to interpret the creation stories in the Bible, and whether there was […]

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Karl Barth’s Definition of Saga (January 5, 2015)

Noah mosaic (source: wikipedia) What is the literature genre of "saga"? Karl Barth identifies the Creation accounts as an examples of the saga genre. Saga is not limited to the Proto-History of Genesis; it is utilized throughout the scriptures. See, for an example, Karl Barth's use of saga in his exposition of the Twelve Spies in the Land […]

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Karl Barth’s use of Saga in Exposition of Scripture (November 29, 2014)

Pastor Karl Barth (source: kbarth.org) Karl Barth's Doctrine of Holy Scripture is expounded in the Church Dogmatics Vol. I/2 §19-21, yet for kinetic learners, Barth's Doctrine of Scripture may be bested learned by reading Barth's expositions of Scripture in the myriad fine print sections throughout the paragraphs of the Church Dogmatics, especially at the end of […]

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