September 2010
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God's Divinity in-cludes God's humanity
Originally written as a talk for South German Radio, “The Humanity of God” was delieverd as a lecture by Barth on September 26, 1957 to a number of Swiss pastors in Aarau. Busch notes that, with regards to Barth’s theology, there is nothing novel about this essay in particular other than the fact that it was written for a popular audience and widely disseminated. (Busch, KB, 424)...
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Divine Jeopardy... (for you, that is)
This chart is posted outside a professor’s office at Samford University with the following caption: “Using this chart alone with no other reference, contemplate your life and God’s dealings with you.” A great thing to consider on a Sunday morning…
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A Word to S. Hawking from W. Pannenberg
“Beyond creation in the more restricted sense of the word, something more is needed to prove the plausibility of the assumption of God’s existence; that is, the redemption and final salvation of the creatures is part and parcel of the demonstration of the reality of God…. It is only in the event of final salvation that the reality of God will be definitively established. The...
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Tanner on the Assumption of a Political Priviledge...
For the most part, I haven’t the foggiest as to what I should do with Kathryn Tanner’s Christ the Key. It will take some time to process for sure. But, if were to rashly judge it, I would say that ch.5, her chapter on Christian inter-personal and socio-political ethics, is the best. Tanner demonstrates that a social trinitarian theological anthropology can be the source of oppression...
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Theology -- Where to Begin
It’s no secret that over the past few years Eberhard Jüngel’s God’s Being is In Becoming: The Trinitarian Being of God in the Theology of Karl Barth has become a theological watershed for constructive Reformed theology here in States. With certainty it can be said that human articulation of the nature of God’s being stands in the very center of all further theological...
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Taking Theological Crazy Pills
I woke up this morning and Kathryn Tanner’s reformulation of the doctrine of justification was in my bed. What was it doing here, snarkly smiling at me in all of its incarnational glory, contentedly snoozing between my wife and me? How does one cope with such a radical move from the cross to the incarnation at 6:30am? How highbrow is one expected to be with no pants on? If that wasn’t...
