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)
