Ray Bakke ( A Theology As Big As the City ) wonders how the apostles, and the gospel, could have made such a rapid transition from rural Galilee to the cities of the Mediterranean. He suggests that Jesus discipled the disciples in an urbanized Palestine. He writes, “Rome . . . . . . . Continue Reading »
A number of sections of Eberhard Busch’s The Great Passion: An Introduction to Karl Barth’s Theology deal with Barth’s criticisms of natural theology. In one section, Busch helpfully puts this in the context of Barth’s reaction to Nazism and his effort to trace the . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m feeling supralapsarian today, and here’s why: As Barth said, God’s Yes to man precedes creation (in Barth’s terms, covenant precedes creation). How could it be otherwise? If God had said No at the beginning, how could we exist at all? Once God says Yes, can . . . . Continue Reading »
Zizioulas offers a thoughtful defense of the Cappadocian notion that there is “causality” in the relations within the immanent Trinity. He notes that “the issue of causality was introduced as a response to the Platonists, who believed that the procession from one to another, . . . . Continue Reading »
Barth, along with much of the Western tradition, defends the filioque on the basis of coherence of the economic and ontological Trinity. If God is not as He appears, we have no revelation of God. John Zizioulas responds by opening up a rather surprising gap between economy and ontology. . . . . Continue Reading »
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