Reading Karl Barth’s Doctrine of God (3)
Selection: The Church Dogmatics II/1:21-, §25.1 “Man before God.” Barth began his discussion with the insistence that God is known in the church because God has given himself to be known in his revelation, supremely in Jesus Christ, the Word become flesh. The knowledge …
Reading Karl Barth’s Doctrine of God (2)
Selection: The Church Dogmatics II/1:12-21, §25.1 “Man before God.” When Barth speaks of ‘man before God’ he means the person who does in fact stand before God, the one in whom the knowledge of God has been realised or fulfilled. How does this occur, …
Times Have Changed
This is from the opening paragraph in the General Introduction of The Library of Living Theology. The first volume of the series appeared in 1952, and thus the General Introduction probably also appeared then: As we enter the second half of the …
Reading Karl Barth’s Doctrine of God (1)
Selection: The Church Dogmatics II/1:3-12, §25.1 “Man before God.” Barth begins his treatment of the doctrine of God with a chapter entitled “The Knowledge of God.” The chapter has three sections, the first being “The Fulfilment of the Knowledge of God” itself comprised of …