June 2011
9 posts
Wolfhart Pannenberg on Barth's Revelatory...
In the first volume of his Systematic Theology, Wolfhart Pannenberg accuses Barth of failing to relocate the most basic elements of his theology from the anthropocentric soil that nurtured the roots of Protestant Liberalism. What makes Pannenberg’s critique so mind-blowing is the doctrinal loci that he names as the source of Barth’s...
2011 Karl Barth Conference Journal: Day 1
Tonight was the opening night for the 2011 Karl Barth Conference co-sponsored by Princeton Seminary’s Center for Barth Studies and the Thomistic Institute of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House Studies in Washington D.C. The conference title follows its unique subject matter and implicitly speaks to its direction and concerns, Thomas Aquinas and Karl...
Marilynne Robinson's Princeton Lecture: American...
Marilynne Robinson’s Abraham Kuyper lecture at Princeton Theological Seminary is available for free download at the Seminary website. The lecture is entitled: Open Wide Thy Hand: Moses and the Origins of American Liberalism.
Marilynne Robinson is an American novelist and essayist. Her novel Gilead received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, and her follow-up novel Home received the...
“I seem to always be missing the ‘creed’ that the fundamentalists...”
– A good-hearted and wise friend.
Resurrection as the Real . . . (and you can get...
“If Paul—quite apart from his general opposition to the idea that faith has a ‘wage’—cannot subordinate hope to the imaginary of a retribution, it is because resurrection has no meaning independently of the universal character of its operation. As soon as it is a question of contingency and grace, all fixing of divisions or distributions is forbidden:...
Ascension Art: Early sci-fi has nothing on this
In one of those massive tomes comprising the Church Dogmatics, Barth remarks that of all the grandeur and pathos Christian art has bequeathed to the world, one particularly fatal flaw was made. Despite countless efforts, Christian art has positively failed to produce an acceptable ascension scene. At least, he says, we all get a good laugh out of it. I would go a step further. Some depictions...
