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All Blog Posts With Tag: Wolfhart Pannenberg
Force fields are science fiction tropes but they are also a scientific fact—after all, science fiction is inspired by recent scientific discoveries. For most people, force fields conjure memories of Star Trek defense shields and tractor beams, or the ubiquitous Force in Star Wars, but thanks to the scientific research […]
Dorothee Sölle (1929–2003) analyzes the virgin birth from the perspective of liberation theology and feminist theology in her book Thinking About God: An Introduction to Theology. Sölle argues that the doctrine of the virgin birth has been polarized into two extremes by orthodox and liberal theology. She argues that orthodoxy […]
It is difficult to acknowledge that the New Testament contains antisemitic scriptures that exhibit hostility and prejudice against the Jewish people and indicts the Pharisees and Jewish leaders for the death of Jesus specifically and all generations of Jewish people since the death of Jesus generally. The antisemitism in the […]
Related: antijudaism, Antisemitism, Hans Küng, Holocaust, Jewish people, Jews, Judaism: Between Yesterday and Tomorrow, Jürgen Moltmann, Martin Luther, On the Jews and Their Lies, R. Kampling, Second Vatican Council, The Apostles Creed In Light of Today's Questions, Vatican II, Wolfhart Pannenberg, yellow badge, yellow star
The New Testament witnesses to numerous resurrection appearances of the risen Jesus during the evangelium quadraginta dierum ("the gospel of forty days" as Karl Barth called it) between the Empty Tomb and the Ascension. But which scripture is the oldest account and original form of them all? Many of the […]
It may surprise many Evangelicals today to learn that Martin Luther, John Calvin and the other reformers affirmed similar (or even the same) Marian Dogmas as the Catholic Church. Protestant Mariology has been in significant decline since the Reformation, and most protestants reject almost every Marian Dogma except for a […]
Related: Assumption of Mary, Birth of the Messiah, Christ, Christmas, Emil Brunner, Immaculate Conception, Ineffabilis Deus, Jürgen Moltmann, Karl Barth, Karl Rahner, Marian Dogmas, mariology, Mary, Mary and Grace, Munificentissimus Deus, Raymond E. Brown, Rudolf Bultmann, Theological Investigations, Theological Investigations Vol. 1: God, Virgin Birth, Wolfhart Pannenberg
Eye-Witness and Myth
Eye-witness accounts appear throughout the New Testament, but in the latest (and most dubious) New Testament scriptures distinguish themselves as eye-witnesses reports (ἐπόπται) in antithesis to aberrant myths (μύθοις) (c.f. 1 Tim 1:4, 4:7, 2 Tim 4:4, Tit 1:14, 2 Pet 1:16). In Wolfhart Pannenberg's essay "Myth in Biblical […]
In Wolfhart Pannenberg's essay "Myth in the Biblical and Christian tradition", he explains that Christianity has reappropriated pagan and Jewish myths throughout history in order to demythologize them. Many evangelicals today try to prove that Jesus was born on December 25th, and deny that Christmas has any pagan origin or identification […]
Martin Luther opened pandora's box when he argued that the clarity of Scripture may be understood apart from the teaching office of the Roman Catholic Church. According to tradition, Martin Luther declared in self-defense "Here I Stand!" at the Diet of Worms (1521) and said he could not be dissuaded […]
The scripture principle (of sola scripture) was the foundation of the Protestant Reformation, and allowed a period of discovery and theological advancement that was achieved by using the Holy Scriptures to challenge the long standing traditional doctrines of the Catholic Church. Unfortunately, this dangerous idea of the Reformation resulted in a […]
Karl Rahner on Why Atheists Glorify God (March 27, 2018)
"Be merciful to those who doubt" ~ Jude 22 (NIV)
Atheists are treated poorly by many Christians today and I'm deeply disturbed by the damning statements I've often heard Christians say to atheists. Not long ago I witnessed an impassive Christian say to an atheist that they were going to hell unless […]
