On April 8, 1966, a five-thousand-word cover story appeared in Time magazine, sending the country into a panic over a group of theologians few had heard of then and nobody remembers now. Paul van Buren, Thomas Altizer, and William Hamilton are forgotten. The cover, however, remains memorable. The . . . . Continue Reading »
The economic and ontological Trinity in Barth. Continue Reading »
Barth on the Christological focus of election. Continue Reading »
Jesus' obedience is the obedience of the Lord who became servant. Continue Reading »
According to Barth, we have our being in gratitude. Continue Reading »
When Harvey Cox was a student minister in Berlin in 1962, one year after the erection of the Wall, he was able to travel back and forth between East and West because he held an American passport. He thus became a courier for pastors and Christian laypeople on both sides of that divide and was . . . . Continue Reading »
Barth wasn't just funny; his humor was a deep source for his theology. Continue Reading »
BARTH'S LEGACY I am grateful to Phillip Cary for his admirable review of my book Reading Barth with Charity (April). I have only one demurral. I would simply like to enter a plea for greater historical consciousness. After all, it has not yet been fifty years since Barth’s death. It seems . . . . Continue Reading »
Reading Barth with Charity: A Hermeneutical Proposal by george hunsinger baker, 208 pages, $24.99 Rumors of war persist in Princeton. The seminary faculty there boasts two eminent Barth scholars, George Hunsinger and Bruce McCormack, who don’t see eye to eye. Recently the battle has . . . . Continue Reading »
Karl Barth, reformed of the Catholic Church. Continue Reading »
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