People often ask me why I am interested in spending some time studying Barth. This morning in a meeting I jotted out an answer to this question, as best as I am currently able to...
I am reading William Willimon’s Conversations with Barth on Preaching (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2006), and found this quotation of Barth very provocative: “Against boredom the only defense is again being biblical. If a sermon is...
“Theology is a peculiarly beautiful discipline. Indeed, at this point we may refer to the fact that if its task is correctly seen and grasped, theology as a whole, in its parts and in their...
I appreciated these words G.W. Bromiley (Creative Minds in Contemporary Theology, ed. by Hughes, Eerdmans, 1966, pp. 58-9) on assessing Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics. After enumerating a number of the strengths and a number of...
