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– This post will be a bit out of place in connection with the web of posts I have spun on this blog so far. At the moment, I have three literary stallions in my mental pen: Barth’s Church Dogmatics 1/I, Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time, and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations. These oddly-placed but preeminent
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– George Hunsinger’s book, How to Read Karl Barth: The Shape of His Theology, is a wonderful summarizing and exploration of Barth’s momentous and huge theological opus, the Church Dogmatics. Recently I decided to take the plunge into the Dogmatics, but thought that before setting off I would benefit by reading a few prefatory works
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– “Jesus Christ is that Truth truthfully communicating himself, and enabling us truthfully to receive him. He is the Truth communicating himself in and through truths, who does not communicate himself apart from truths, and who does not communicate truths apart from himself. It is in this utterly unique way that Jesus Christ constitutes in
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– Thomas F. Torrance was a Church of Scotland minister, mentee to the preeminent Karl Barth, and a world-renowned theologian in his own right whose universal appreciation – from all sides of the aisle – points to the man’s formidable theological mind, his heart for people, and a passion for the unity of the twentieth
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– What has taken place in the event of Jesus Christ – the in-carnat-ion, the en-flesh-ment, the Son of God taking upon Himself the flesh of humanity – is the redeeming of humanity by God Himself. In God’s program of salvation, God is both the initiator and receiver of that Man-to-Godward movement and God-to-Manward movement.
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– There were many powerful insights to arise out of the theological crises and reflections of the Reformation period. Liturgically, theologically, and morally, the Reformation is rightly so called a reform-ation of the Western Christian churches of the Late Medieval period. During the period, the Roman Catholic Church was split asunder as groups within it
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– Karl Barth’s Dogmatics in Outline is an imperfect summarizing of his more layered, theologically-structured work, the Church Dogmatics. The Outline, made up of 24 chapters each covering a portion of the Apostle’s Creed, is a formidable introduction for the Barth-curious. More than a simple introduction, however, Dogmatics in Outline is a rich theological-devotional meditation
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– One of the few essential patristic principles which we receive from our older brothers and sisters in the historic Church catholic is the principle that “What has not been assumed [by Christ, in the incarnation] has not been healed.” Such was the implicit assumption of Sts. Athanasius and Cyril of Alexandria, and such was
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– Maximus the Confessor is quickly becoming one of my favorite historical theologians. His characteristic Christocentrism, his healthy balance of apophatic and kataphatic theology, and his descriptions of the Christian life all lift up the soul to heights of love and peace which few contemporary Christian paperbacks have the ability to do. I am reminded
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Today was similar to yesterday. We got up, did the Italian breakfast thing at the caffe immediately next to the caffe from yesterday (near the Trevi fountain), and set off for the nearby Pantheon. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. My journal entry this morning: “Sitting outside at a caffe next to Trevi fountain (the caffe directly beside
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Today was similar to yesterday. We got up, did the Italian breakfast thing at the caffe immediately next to the caffe from yesterday (near the Trevi fountain), and set off for the nearby Pantheon. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. My journal entry this morning: “Sitting outside at a caffe next to Trevi fountain (the caffe directly beside
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