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All Blog Posts With Tag: Wolfhart Pannenberg
Moltmann, Barth and Pannenberg by Thor Rasmussen (March 18, 2017)
Jürgen Moltmann, Karl Barth, and Wolfhart Pannenberg by Thor Rasmussen
My longtime friend and talented artist, Thor Rasmussen, graciously created these amazing illustrations of Jürgen Moltmann, Karl Barth and Wolfhart Pannenberg. I've always loved Thor's artwork, especially his illustrations and asked him to create these illustrations of three of my favorite theologians, in […]
The Errors of Inerrancy: #3 Inerrancy Censors the Bible’s Capacity for Error (October 13, 2016)
[The Errors of Inerrancy: A ten-part series on why Biblical Inerrancy censors the Scriptures and divides Evangelicals.]
The Errors of Inerrancy: #3. Inerrancy Censors the Bible's Capacity for Error.
Introduction
What harm is there in believing that the Bible might be Inerrant? In most cases, Biblical Inerrancy is a relatively harmless foreign praxis applied to […]
Wolfhart Pannenberg on Defeating Biblical Patriarchy (November 10, 2015)
The Banishment of Hagar by Jan Mostaert, c. 1620-25, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum.
In his famous book, Anthropology in Theological Perspective, Wolfhart Pannenberg says "that the biblical tradition has legitimized a patriarchal order of the family" in not only the Old Testament, but also in New Testament: cf. 1 Cor 14:34, Col 3:18, 1 Pet […]
Soul of My Body: Karl Barth’s Anthropology (August 17, 2015)
What is Man? Karl Barth solves this enigmatic anthropological question with one word: Jesus! Barth fleshes out his anthropology throughout The Church Dogmatics, Vol. 3.2, Sections 45-46: The Doctrine of Creation (CD III/2), beginning with Jesus, Man for Other Men in "§45 Man in His Determination as the Covenant-Partner of God" where Barth declares the victory of the Crucified One […]
Karl Barth believed in the Virgin Birth (December 25, 2014)
Nativity of the Lord, Icon by St. Andrei Rublev (1405), Cathedral of the Annunciation, Moscow Kremlin. (source: wikipedia)
Karl Barth believed in the Virgin Birth. Barth's theological nemesis Emil Brunner did not and most all of Barth's heirs chose to follow Emil Brunner's famous rejection of the Virgin Birth. Wolfhart Pannenberg sided with Brunner and rejected […]
Wolfhart Pannenberg on the History of Christology (June 9, 2014)
Wolfhart Pannenberg speaking at a CDU conference in Bonn, 1983
In Wolfhart Pannenberg's famous Christology book, Jesus: God and Man, he provided an impressive outline of how Christology as a dogma had developed historically. All Christian doctrines develop over time as the Church revises its talk about God, as Karl Barth would […]
Karl Barth
Karl Barth and Jürgen Moltmann had a very famous correspondence of letters in the 1960's. Unfortunately, many only read Barth's response to Moltmann without correct context and conclude that Barth sent Moltmann only a scathing letter of rejection, and this couldn't be farther from the truth. The following letters are […]
Wolfhart Pannenberg is famous for seconding Emil Brunner's rejection of the Virgin Birth as a late accretion into the New Testament. The question immediately arises, "How can anyone reject a statement in the Apostles' Creed?" The short answer is that Pannenberg affirms the Apostles' Creed, but with some revision in […]
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 […]
