Actually Scot Mcknight’s latest article in the most recent edition of Christianity Today focuses on Brian McLaren, but McKnight acknowledges McLaren’s formative and continuing influence within the Emergent segment of the broader emerging movement. The article re-confirms McKnight as one of the most astute observers of the emerging movement. The article also highlights his well […]

***Eberhard Busch, Karl Barth’s biographer and live-in secretary recorded his last memory of the great theologian, just two nights before his death. It was Advent, 1968:
In his last year he was not so busy and I think very ill. There were some times in the spring and summer when it seemed he would die. But […]

*** Barth on Schleiermacher:
“We have to do with a hero, the like of which is but seldom bestowed upon theology. Anyone who has never noticed anything of the splendor this figure radiated and still does―I am almost tempted to say, who has never succumbed to it―may honorably pass on to other and possibly better ways, […]

***“Calvin is a cataract, a primeval forest, a demonic power, something directly down from Himalaya, absolutely Chinese, strange, mythological; I lack completely the means, the suction cups, even to assimilate this phenomenon, not to speak of presenting it adequately. What I receive is only a thin little stream and what I can then give out […]

***I suppose I first learned of the inevitable idolatrous tendency of protestant liberalism (and apologetic approaches to theology generally) from Karl Barth. He convinced me that unless we allow the God-borne witness to in Holy Scripture to speak for Himself, we find ourselves speaking in His place, and so, wittingly or not, we make a […]