Next Barth Meeting Scheduled
Hello all.After a semester-long hiatus, the Barth reading group will be having a meeting at Glen's house (see Google-maps link on left nav bar for directions) at 7:00pm on the second Tuesday of...
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Karl Barth's Trinitarian Theology Released
Peter S. Oh has received copies of his new book and he has been kind enough to put a copy in the mail for me. In the meantime, Amazon will release his book for purchase on January 20th. I suggest you...
View ArticleBarth Society Meeting Tonight!!!
Hello everyone, and Happy New Year!The Karl Barth Society of Amherst will resume meeting tonight (Tuesday) at 7 p.m. at Glen Franklin's home in Shutesbury. We will be meeting (tentatively) the second...
View ArticleA Review of The Ascension in Karl Barth by Andrew Burgess
Ben Myers over at Faith and Theology has just written a review of The Ascension in Karl Barth by Andrew Burgess. I highly recommend it, as Ben always writes good reviews.
View ArticleMeeting Tuesday, Feb. 6
We will reconvene at 7 p.m. next Tuesday, Feb. 6, at Glen Franklin's House (see link on the sidebar to see a map).We are continuing with Barth's account of the foundations of Trinitarian doctrine with...
View ArticleMeeting tonight
Hello everyone,Hopefully everyone in our area who might be coming got the message, but in case you didn't -- we're meeting tonight (Tuesday) at Glen Franklin's House to discuss Barth's take on...
View Articlemeeting rescheduled
For this week, we've rescheduled our discussion of CD I/1 to Thursday, March 8, at 7:30 p.m. at Amherst Coffee shop, adjacent to the Jones Library. I apologize if this is inconvenient for anyone.
View ArticleBrunner's Second Counter-Thesis
THE CREATOR RECOGNIZED THROUGH CREATIONThe second of Brunner’s counter-theses concerns the ability of humanity to see God the Creator in nature (His Creation). To further maintain the co-existing...
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TWO KINDS OF REVELATION AND THEIR POINT OF CONTACT Brunner believes that Scripture unanimously attests to the existence of two revelations: the general revelation of God in creation and the special...
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GOD’S PRESERVATION OF GRACE According to Brunner, “the manner in which God is present to his fallen creature is his preserving grace. Preserving grace does not abolish sin but abolishes the worst...
View ArticleBrunner's Fifth Counter-Thesis
THE DIVINE ORDINANCES Under the rubric of preserving grace, Brunner links the ordinances of matrimony as well as government, “without which no communal life is conceivable, that could in any way be...
View ArticleBrunner's Sixth Counter-Thesis
THE REFORMERS’ DOCTRINE AND ITS ANTITHESIS Brunner devotes a long section of his pamphlet Nature and Grace to explaining how his theology, especially the doctrine of the imago dei, is not only...
View ArticleBrunner's Six Counter-Theses Against Barth
I have posted my summaries of the Counter-Theses that Brunner wrote in "Nature and Grace," which I will index here (I will hopefully add page references later, since they are all in footnotes in the...
View ArticleThe Significance of Natural Theology for Brunner
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THEOLOGIA NATURALIS FOR THEOLOGY AND THE CHURCH Brunner begins by speaking of a discussion on natural theology that he had with Karl Barth. In it, Barth pointed out the political...
View ArticleIntroduction to Barth's Nein!
Barth's Response in Nein!There is no question that Barth’s mind that it is his duty to respond to Brunner, for “at the decisive point he takes part in the false movement of thought by which the Church...
View ArticleBARTH ON THE IMAGO DEI
BARTH ON THE IMAGO DEIThe reply given by Barth has the intention of undermining Brunner’s nature/grace dialectic. Barth does this by undermining Brunner’s distinction between the “formal” and...
View ArticleBrunner and Calvin: Concerning Natural Knowledge
BRUNNER AND CALVIN: CONCERNING NATURAL KNOWLEDGE Again, as stated above, there is not enough space to direct attention towards a proper interpretation of Calvin’s theology out of Brunner and Barth’s...
View ArticleBRUNNER THEN AND NOW: THE EARLIER FORM OF THEOLOGIA NATURALIS
In the next chapter of Barth’s response we begin to see what Barth would have preferred from Brunner. Here he describes Brunner’s earlier project of natural theology (with some aspects akin to that of...
View ArticleSIMILARITIES AND DISIMILARITIES: BARTH AND BRUNNER ON THE IMAGO DEI
CONCLUSION:SIMILARITIES AND DISIMILARITIES:BARTH AND BRUNNER ON THE IMAGO DEI According to O’Donovan, Barth and Brunner agree that human beings are unique creatures due to the unique relationship that...
View ArticleBARTH’S RESPONSE TO NATURAL THEOLOGY SUMMARIZED
BARTH’S RESPONSE TO NATURAL THEOLOGY SUMMARIZEDBy now it should be fairly obvious to the reader that Barth’s commitment to God’s grace fuels his hostility toward natural theology within the Church....
View ArticleConclusion: BARTH’S RESPONSE TO MODERN CONCEPTS OF NATURAL THEOLOGY
BARTH’S RESPONSE TO MODERN CONCEPTS OF NATURAL THEOLOGYRATIONALISM If we stipulate rationalism as purely attempting to prove the existence of God then it is obvious that Barth, as well as Brunner, have...
View ArticleWhy the Eucharist Does Not Make the Church Part 1: Henri de Lubac
The following is my final paper that I wrote for George Hunsinger's class on the theology of the Lord's Supper last spring:Does the Eucharist make the Church? Henri de Lubac, the great 20th century...
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Why the Eucharist Does Not Make the Church Part 2: John Zizioulas
John Zizioulas (Being as Communion)John Zizioulas, like de Lubac, also recovers the early church’s teaching on the Eucharist for the purpose of revitalizing ecclesiology, emphasizing that the...
View ArticleWhy the Eucharist Does Not Make the Church Part III: Analysis and Conclusion
Analysis:With Zizioulas’s Pneumatological Christology, Webster calls us to remember that we must not think that “at his ascension Jesus Christ as it were resigns his office in favour of human...
View ArticleWhy the Eucharist Does Not Make the Church: Index
Part I: Introduction and Henri de LubacPart II: John ZizioulasPart III: Analysis and Conclusion
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