Evangelical Theology, American Lectures, 1962

One of the best Christian theologians; however, this lecture is not very systematic as it only touches on several points of “Evangelical Theology”. Barth's English is not very good and it can be difficult to follow him – especially for the first hour or so.......more

"If anyone should not find himself astonished and filled with wonder when he becomes involved, in one way or another with theology, he would be well advised to consider once more, from a certain remoteness and without prejudice, what is involved in this undertaking," writes Barth. Consider then the......more

I would love to call myself a Barthian. I love people of his school: Yoder (though I have qualms about his sexual-predator-tendencies), Hauerwas, Willimon, Webster, McCormack, Hart. I also once participated in a reading group that took a slow (50 pages a week) reading of the Dogmatics. However I fee......more

I’m really glad I begun my cursory little glance back into theology with this work after a little over three years of having done virtually zero serious work on the subject. Having possessed both a feigned belief in Christianity during my enrolment at a Catholic primary school in my youth and a subs......more

I was brought here by the great Flemming Rutledge who described Karl Barth as the greatest theologian of the last 50 years. There’s something ironic about that because Barth himself has an entire section about the stupidity of calling any theologian great. I must say there were some wonderful takeaw......more