Blogs Posts on "Karl Barth"

Why universities welcome theological colleges by Per Crucem ad Lucem on Nov 18, 2009Today’s Eureka Street includes a piece by Neil Ormerod on ‘Why universities welcome theological colleges’. He concludes with this warning: The movement [of theological education] to the university sector of course restores the ancie...

Persevering for a Sacred History in Marriage by Loving the Mud on Nov 18, 2009Marriage is the journey of two stumbling sinners falling toward God and each other and all the while experiencing events and experiences that can demonstrate the redemption of God to a lost and dying world. You simply have to see God as Lord of your...

Speights and Barth on real men by Per Crucem ad Lucem on Oct 27, 2009Whether we’re talking of Monteiths, or Three Boys, or Emersons, or West Coast Brewing, New Zealand’s south island can boast being the home of some really decent beers (my own home brew included). One of the local favourites is Speights,...

Review: The Early Preaching of Karl Barth: Fourteen Sermons with Commentary by William H. Willimon by The Church of Jesus Christ on Oct 27, 2009From Amazon: Product Description WJK is proud to present this special collection of fourteen of Karl Barth’s World War I-era sermons— the only English language collection of Barth sermons preached between 1917 and 1920 when he was a parish pastor...

Why I (still) confess the filioque by Faith and Theology on Oct 24, 2009In theology, Eastern Orthodoxy is the new black. These days it's harder and harder to find any serious Protestant commitment to the western confession of filioque. The denomination in which I'm teaching, for instance, omits the filioque from liturgic...

The Origin of Karl Barth by The Church of Jesus Christ on Oct 21, 2009Many factors lead to Barth’s radical break with liberal theology. Two, however, stand out as especially noteworthy. First, Barth found that liberal theology was useless in his weekly task of preaching the gospel to the people of Safenwil. As a resu...

Karl Barth on ‘orthodoxy’ by Per Crucem ad Lucem on Oct 14, 2009Barth again, this time on ‘orthodoxy’: ‘Orthodoxy doubtless has much to live down, but it has nevertheless a powerful instinct for what is superfluous and what is indispensable. In this it surpasses many of the schools that oppose it. A...

Karl Barth on doing theology in the university by Per Crucem ad Lucem on Oct 13, 2009I’ve been re-reading some early lectures by Karl Barth from the period 1916–1923, published as The Word of God and the Word of Man. It really is an inspiring collection, the reading of which is of great encouragement to pastors and theologica...

(what) would Barth tweet? by Per Crucem ad Lucem on Oct 13, 2009Drawing on recent posts by Halden Doerge, Ben Myers and Carol Howard Merritt, Graham Ford (a pastoral resident at Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church (USA) in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania), asks ‘What would Barth tweet?’ He begins: If Karl Barth ri...

Book Bargains… Especially for ERB readers!!! [Vol. 2, #40] by The Englewood Review of Books on Oct 9, 2009tweetmeme_url = "http://erb.kingdomnow.org/book-bargains-vol-2-40/"; tweetmeme_source = "tweetmeme"; In our continuing effort to fund the publication and free distribution of The Englewood Review, we are going to be collaborating more intent...