Where God May Speak
And for the first quote from my brand new, and freaking awesome Barth set, I give you a quote from CD I/1 that, contrary to many of the “invention of the antichrist”-type caricatures of Barth, exhibits...
View ArticleDogmatics as Persistence
More from the early sections of CD I/1 on the nature of dogmatics according to Barth: “Dogmatics as an enquiry presupposes that they true content of Christian talk about God must be known by men....
View ArticleBarth on Heresy
In §2 of Cd I/1 Barth has a number of interesting reflections on the nature of heresy and its relationship to faith: By heresy we understand a form of Christian faith which we cannot deny to be a form...
View ArticleBarth on Preaching and the Sacraments
In distinguishing Evangelical dogmatics from liberal Protestantism on the one hand, and Roman Catholicism on the other, Barth spends a great deal of time focusing on the issue of proclamation and the...
View ArticleSerious Theology
Barth certainly can always boast of his energy. Even in the most technical sections of the Church Dogmatics (and CD I/1 is almost certainly that) there is nothing but pure energeticness when it comes...
View ArticleThe Constant Uneasiness of Theology
Barth’s ruminations on theological method are interesting on multiple levels, not the least of which is the way his thought bears on how we understand the relationship(s) between Christian theology and...
View ArticleProclamation and Theology
Again from Barth: Like the subject-matter of Christianity, Church proclamation must also remain free in the last resort, free to receive the command which it must always receive afresh from the free...
View ArticleThis happened
Whatever else we may want to say about him, or his theology, I cannot doubt that the God Barth wrestled with was the living God of the Gospel: God was with us, with us His enemies, with us who were...
View ArticleChurch Dogmatics §1 Comments
This is cross-posted from our ongoing reading/discussion blog, Reading through Church Dogmatics. I figure I’ll post my summary sections here the day after I post them on the reading group blog so I can...
View ArticleChurch Dogmatics §2 Comments
§2.1 The Necessity of Dogmatic Prolegomena Summary: Prolegomena is the introductory part of theology that seeks to understand its particular way of knowledge. Prolegomena, thus, is our attempt to speak...
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