CD-rom, that is.
Logos is releasing a CD-rom version of Barth’s Church Dogmatics. This is certainly good news indeed! (via Ricoblog)
And speaking of Barth, Ben Myers just created another Faith and Theology podcast entitled, "Karl Barth’s witness". Don’t miss it!
Tracy Early, noted religion journalist, dies at 71.
When I was reading the report about his life, the following section really captured me:
[My] own religious orientation seems to have more affinity for Tillich’s approach of living on the boundary between church and world, rather than Barth’s explicit evangelical commitment. But somehow I’ve wound up admiring Barth as a person much more. Barth at the end of his life was visiting prisoners and preaching the Gospel to them, while Tillich was shining with the Harvard intellectuals and taking pride in not going to church. I cannot quite see how a Christian theologian can say meeting with fellow Christians for prayer and praise and celebration of communion is optional.
And I think he is absolutely right. Just how many "intellectual" Christians who are so fond of criticizing the C/church and are so anti-institutional, understand this?
I am happy that my little piece on Barth’s exegesis even got mentioned by Australian theologian Ben Myers in his blog Faith and Theology. Thanks a lot, Ben!
Remembering Barth on the 37th anniversary of his passing, I wrote a little précis and reflection on §59.2 of CD IV/1.
The Exegesis of Karl Barth In §59.2 of Church Dogmatics IV/1
The Theology of Karl Barth is essentially a retelling of the Gospel Story. Theology in itself is not the revelation; it is not even the extension of such revelation. It is at most the ordered human reflection on the revelation that happened in space and time. As a result, Barth follows neither the route of the metaphysical nor the existential approach, but rather focuses his theology on the Word of God. And he does not simply focus on any word of any god, but the One Word of God who takes the form of a human flesh (or more particularly a Jewish human flesh) in Jesus of Nazareth two thousand years ago. As the messenger to whom this message is committed is the Church, the basic and normative form of witness on which the Church is charged is the Bible. Hence exegesis becomes the foundation of his theology. And if one wishes to understand the thoughts of this great theologian, he or she must first examine the method behind his exegesis. [Read more]
Probably challenged by Jim West’s post on Zwingli’s idea on the subject of pre-destination and free will, Benjamin Myers of Faith and Theology will offer his impossible single-sentence summary of each of the 13 books that make up the Church Dogmatics in a week! Why is it impossible? Because the massive Church Dogmatics stands as one of the longest theological works ever written, a work that is unfinished at about six million words by Barth’s death in 1968.
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You become like what you worship. You reflect the one you worship.
Those who keep on blogging
Those who help me understand what He said
What we think He is saying
What the world is saying
What the world is expressing
We depend so much on technology, yet we hardly care to know anything about it.
Great minds I finished (or gave up) wrestling with
Great minds that demand me to wrestle with
Where they are
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