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Barth on God and the Whole Person

Posted in Karl Barth, Pneumatology on September 15, 2011 | 4 Comments »

Since I finished the dissertation, I’ve been reading chunks of Karl Barth. In Volume I, Part 2 of his 13-part Church Dogmatics, he writes at length of the subjective side of revelation, what might be called the “appropriation” of the objective side of revelation, what Christ has accomplished for us (§16). How does it look, [...]

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Barth’s Romans Commentary

Posted in Karl Barth, Romans, Søren Kierkegaard on January 31, 2011 | 2 Comments »

I’m finally reading the famous commentary on Romans. Of course, there are all the sharpened descriptions of contradiction between God and humanity, stunning and blunt: “In the Resurrection the new world of the Holy Spirit touches the old world of the flesh, but touches it as a tangent touches a circle, that is, without touching [...]

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Von Balthasar and the Reformation

Posted in Catholicism, Ecumenism, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Karl Barth, Martin Luther, Søren Kierkegaard, Spiritual Theology on January 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Hans Urs von Balthasar, among the most influential Catholic theologians of the 20th century, unfolds in the early part of his trilogy a theology of Christian experience. Here the saints play a very interesting role as those who exemplify the Christian life which simply is the conformity to Christ’s form (von Balthasar’s first volume is [...]

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Multiform Jesus

Posted in Christology, Karl Barth on December 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Karl Barth, on seeing Jesus from many different and varied angles: The recognition of Christian faith can and should be varied. The reason for this is as follows. Although its object, the Jesus Christ attested in Scripture and proclaimed by the community, is single, unitary, consistent and free from contradiction, yet for all His singularity [...]

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Karl Barth on the Church

Posted in Ecclesiology, Karl Barth on November 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Karl Barth, in turning to the subject of the Church, makes sure we understand that we must see it as it is, in all the ugliness and deformity which comes with its historical existence. Yet, there is a “hope and a yearning”: The credo ecclesiam [I believe in the Church : Apostle's Creed] can and [...]

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Karl Barth and Rob Bell on Adam

Posted in Anthropology, Karl Barth, Rob Bell on October 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Unlikely bedfellows, but they interestingly coincide on their view of the first man, Adam: Is the greatest truth about Adam and Eve and the fruit that it happened, or that it happens? This story, one of the first in the Bible, is true for us because it is our story. We have all taken the [...]

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Karl Barth on Postmodernity, Ecumenism and Orthodoxy

Posted in Ecumenism, Karl Barth on December 14, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

First, on postmodernity: The alleged freedom from presuppositions of which a certain [knowledge] is accustomed to boast, simply means that yet another presupposition is being made. Concretely this means that God’s revelation is not to be reckoned with, that on the contrary it is possible to adopt a neutral attitude to what this Scripture points [...]

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