Judy, let's assume that we could take all the words
you've posted to TT and bind them together in a book. What would it
number, say, maybe 9000 pages? Would a single one of them be worth
reading? What were you attempting to do with those words, if not to
unfold the revealed word attested in the Bible? You see, Judy, you still
think that everyone is doing theology except you. Okay, please tell me
what it is you think you are doing.
Fellowshipping with other "believers" on an
internet forum; and speaking God's truth with others who seek to
walk in it?
You will try in vain to get me into an argument over
Karl Barth. I just simply won't do it. If you are interested in the man,
then read his works or the works of his students; they are manifest and
quite approachable. If not then please move on. None of the criticisms
you share are new or revelatory. Unless you have been living
in a bath tub, you, along with millions of other Christians,
have been well-misinformed about this man. Bill
So you are not prepared to give account for the
hope that is in you with regard to Barth Bill? Everything I have
read about him so far has been dialectic and nothing is
definitive. Hardly the kind of atmosphere where faith
grows.
Bill writes: "It will take many years, I'm
sure, before Barth will be allowed to speak for himself to the
conservative community. In the meantime Evangelical Christians will be
missing out on one of the greatest
voices the Church has ever known.
I'm curious about what you find so great
Bill... What does Barth say in the more than 9,000 pages of his
Dogmatic that we can not learn through the grace and mercy of God from
His Own Word? Was Barth inspired or misguided in his belief
that the "task of theology is to unfold the revealed word attested in
the Bible" when Jesus' own Words teach us that this is the work of the
Holy Spirit in the lives of those who believe and follow
Him?
The very size of the Dogmatics.
Mascall said that it takes so much time to read
this theologian of the word that no time is left to read the
Word itself. His
(Barth's) style is majestic, and difficult.
From 1932 to 1967 he (Barth) worked on his Church
Dogmatics, a multivolume work that was unfinished at his death. It
consists of 13 parts in four volumes, running altogether to
more than 9,000 pages. Although he changed some of his
early positions, he continued to maintain that the
task of theology is to unfold the revealed word attested in the
Bible, and that there is no place for natural theology or the
influence of non-Christian religions. His theology depended on a
distinction between the Word (i.e., God's self-revelation as
concretely manifested in Christ) and religion.
judyt
He that says "I know Him" and doesn't keep His
Commandments
is a liar (1 John 2:4)
