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All Blog Posts With Tag: Wolfhart Pannenberg
Psalm 14:1 NRSV says "Fools say in their hearts, 'There is no God.'" The Psalmist is right, that fools often deny the existence of God, but fools are not the only ones who deny the existence of God. In fact, there is no proof for the existence of god at […]
Jürgen Moltmann believed that Non-Christians should be invited to the Lord's Supper, and that there should be no restrictions to the eucharist (commonly referred to as "fencing the table"). Wolfhart Pannenberg disagreed with Moltmann, and in his Systematic Theology Vol. III, Pannenberg criticized Moltmann's "eucharist community" as too broad of […]
The Resurrection Appearances: A Seven Part Series
Part 4. The Third Day: A Theological Symbol or a Historical Date and Time?
If the resurrection of Jesus Christ was a historical fact, as Wolfhart Pannenberg contends, then there was a specific date and time when the resurrection happened. The New Testament provides two potential […]
The Resurrection Appearances: 3. Faith in the Empty Tomb is an Empty Faith (September 25, 2017)
The Resurrection Appearances: A Seven Part Series
Part 3. Faith in the Empty Tomb is an Empty Faith
In part three of the Resurrection Appearances series, I've compiled three theologians who reject the historicity of the empty tomb stories in the New Testament: Wolfhart Pannenberg, Raymond E. Brown, and Karl Barth. All three […]
The Resurrection Appearances: 2. Eyewitnesses, Visions or Hallucinations? (September 20, 2017)
The Resurrection Appearances: A Seven Part Series
Part 2. Eyewitnesses, visions or hallucinations?
The people who saw the resurrection appearances are frequently called eyewitnesses to the risen Jesus Christ, but they were not eyewitnesses in the modern sense of the term. A closer and more accurate analysis of the resurrection appearances reported in the New […]
The Resurrection Appearances: 1. The Argument for Historical Facticity (September 16, 2017)
The Resurrection Appearances: A Seven Part Series
Part 1. The Argument For Historical Facticity
Is the resurrection of Jesus Christ a historical fact? In a fascinating and illuminating section of Wolfhart's Pannenberg's Systematic Theology, Vol. 2, he critically examines the New Testament witness regarding the resurrection appearances of Jesus and the reports of the […]
Wolfhart Pannenberg on Death Before the Fall of Humanity (September 7, 2017)
Wolfhart Pannenberg (1928-2014) argued that there was death before the Fall of humanity described in the Creation Stories (Gen 1-3). Pannenberg's explanation of death in prehuman history enables us to better understand the Doctrine of Creation, and how evolutionary sciences may be interpreted in respect to it, and how to […]
Related: creation, Death, death before the fall, evil, Evolution, Fall, sin, suffering, systematic theology, Wolfhart Pannenberg
Wolfhart Pannenberg on Why the Historical Adam was Mortal before the Fall (September 2, 2017)
Was the Historical Adam ever immortal? Wolfhart Pannenberg says that if we look closely at the biblical text, then we will discover that the answer is no! Pannenberg believes that the Fall caused a shortening of human life, but this does not mean that humanity was ever immortal before the […]
What are angels? Evangelicals are so infatuated with angelic myths, that it's almost impossible to answer! From ancient times, to this very day, the movement of the stars, lightning strikes and earthquakes have been explained by angelic activity, but now all these events may be entirely explained by modern science. […]
Jürgen Moltmann on the End of Time and Eternity (June 1, 2017)
Time and Eternity
Time and Eternity is a challenging theological puzzle to understand (and explain!) Biblical speaking, Eternity is not the same as endless-Time. Time is a one-way arrow of successive moments that started 'in the beginning' (Gen 1:1) that runs irreversibly forward until the 'last day' when 'time shall be no more' […]
