On Monday night 15 July 2019 I was installed as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Australia in New South Wales. This was my opening address and it contains a quote from Karl Barth's book "Faith of the Church". My address to you tonight is called: The Sign of the Times. Signs are visual messages … Continue reading Moderator’s Opening Address: The Sign of the Times
Julie Andrews sang, "Let's start at the very beginning. It's a very good place to start." In this excerpt from Marty Folsom's forthcoming book "Learning to Read the Church Dogmatics of Karl Barth (one bite at a time)" we begin at the begin with a summary of paragraph 1 of Volume 1, part volume 1, … Continue reading Chapter 8 – One Bite at a Time
In this section of Marty Folsom's work, "The Church Dogmatics - One Bite at a Time", we get a short summary of each of the sections of the entire Dogmatics. CHAPTER 7 VIEW FROM 1200 FEET – VIEW FROM THE TRAILHEAD INTRODUCTION – The Church Dogmatics are divided into 78 “Paragraphs” that are as long … Continue reading Chapter 7 – One Bite at a Time
We continue looking at Dr Marty Folsom's upcoming book, Learning to Read the Church Dogmatics of Karl Barth - One Bite at a Time. Today we take the view from a mountain loop trail. It is easy to miss, but the Church Dogmatics has an Introduction, plus 16 chapters (and chapter 17 is in the book The … Continue reading Chapter 6 – One Bite at a Time
In this chapter of Dr Marty Folsom's upcoming book - Learning to Read the Church Dogmatics of Karl Barth - One Bite at a Time - we take the view from the mountaintop. The point of this chapter is to capture the 13 [14] separated books in the set of the Church Dogmatics in one paragraph … Continue reading Chapter 5 – One Bite at a Time
After a long and needless delay, we resume our series of blogs on Dr Marty Folsom's upcoming book - Learning to Read the Church Dogmatics of Karl Barth - One Bite at a Time. You can find the previous blogs here, here, and here. Today we take the view of the Dogmatics from the airplane. Marty tries to … Continue reading Chapter 4 – One Bite at a Time
(In which is found a summary of CD III/2, 19-55) We know what true humanity is because the relationship between God and human beings is made known in the Word of God. This relationship is the theme and content of the Bible. To describe what human beings are and what their relationship is to their … Continue reading Man as an Object of Theological Knowledge – Dummies Style
Karl Barth's life told by puppets? Like bacon and maple syrup on pancakes, that has to be one of the best combinations of three of my favorite things. (The following has been translated into English from this webpage) KARL.B.DENKT: a tribute to Karl Barth The visitor to Zürich, who came to Stäfa via Zurich, found a … Continue reading Karl Barth – with Puppets!
The children songs of Abel Burckhart gave Karl Barth his first theological education. Later Barth wrote: What made an indelible impression on me was the homely self-assurance with which these unpretentious verses spoke of the vents of Christmas, Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, as though they could have taken place that very morning … Continue reading Karl Barth on the hymns of his childhood
(Translated from CGST magazine - click here for the link) And here's a very faint copy of the original German. For Hong Liang, this is all I could write tonight, heartfelt greetings. What is Theology for? by Jürgen Moltmann 1. Theology exists for faith. Christian faith is not a blind faith, but a knowing faith. This … Continue reading What is Theology for? by Jürgen Moltmann
