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)
