Thoughtful Reflections on Faith and Life
I did it. I finally did it. I read the entire Church Dogmatics by Karl Barth. What’s the big deal? This is no simple systematic theology. It is the size of an encyclopedia set. And I read it as a part of my devotions, mostly reading two pages at a time. This is not a … Read More “Thoughts on Reading Barth’s Church Dogmatics” »
How should Christians see death? Is death something to be feared? Should Christians look forward to death? In reflecting on these things, I really appreciate what Karl Barth has to say on this subject. The New Testament does not fear death. But he never hopes for it. He hopes for the One who has delivered … Read More “Karl Barth on Christians and Death” »
The New Testament presents a message of hope. But what is the content of that hope? I came across this summary of the New Testament hope by Karl Barth that I thought was very helpful. This, then, is the New Testament hope. To understand it, we must fix our eyes firmly on three points: 1. … Read More “Karl Barth on the New Testament Hope” »
When God loves, revealing His inmost being in the fact that He loves and therefore seeks and creates fellowship, this being and doing is divine and distinct from all other loving to the extent that the love of God is grace. Grace is the distinctive mode of God’s being in so far as it seeks … Read More “Karl Barth on Grace” »
The Christian heresies spring from the fact that man does not take seriously the known ground of divine immanence in Jesus Christ, so that from its revelation, instead of apprehending Jesus Christ and the totality of Him, he arbitrarily selects this or that feature and sets it up as a subordinate centre: perhaps the idea … Read More “Karl Barth on Heresy” »
Much of my time is spent responding to various attacks on the Bible. There is definitely no lack of attacks to respond to. I am also someone who appreciates Karl Barth and Barth made this interesting statement: “The maintaining of the Word of God against the attacks to which it is exposed cannot be our … Read More “Why We Defend the Bible” »
The catastrophic crash of orthodoxy in the 18th century, the consequences of which we still have to carry to this day, is no more puzzling than the collapse of a house whose foundations are giving way. Responsibility for the disaster must be borne, not by the philosophy of the world which had become critical, but … Read More “Karl Barth on Orthodoxy” »
