During my first year of seminary I discovered Karl Barth. He was grappling with theological challenges that were new to me, he was operating within a theological tradition that was largely foreign to me (names...
Read moreOur second reading in my atonement seminar was paragraph 59 of Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics, which deals with his doctrine of atonement. Each week all seven of us do the reading, and then one of...
Read moreThe theologian I’ve been engaging in 2011 is Karl Barth, and I’ve been chipping away at the Study Edition of Church Dogmatics off and on over the year. I’ve also finished his book on Anselm, which...
Read moreI’m about half-way through Barth’s Anselm book. Barth is the theologian I am reading in 2011. Next year it will be Augustine. I’ve chosen Barth because I learn from engaging with him, though where he...
Read moreA background project I’m chipping away at during 2011 is volume 1 of Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics. For Christmas I got the 2010 paperback study edition, which is definitely worth getting over the first edition...
Read moreSome reasons why Barth’s Anselm book interests me as a book to focus on this year: 1) Barth sees Anselm as an especially important and relevant theologian. He calls him “one of those phenomena which...
Read moreSince graduating seminary I’ve been doing some personal study projects to keep learning. My initial triad was Christ’s resurrection (systematic theology), Hebrews (Bible), and Anselm (historical theology). I started a new triad during the summer...
Read moreI love the way Barth describes his struggle with Calvin. I know something of this delightful feeling, when you encounter a new thinker and he blows you out of the water. He wrote in a...
Read moreI thought it might be helpful to flesh out what I referred to in my last post on Barth but did not discuss, namely, areas in Barth’s theology which I find troubling. Ironically, I part...
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