Christianity and Barthianism

[RamistThomist]

I just picked this book up. Rushdoony read the MSS to and received Van Til's thanks.

 

[Josiah]

I have it in paperback and have started to read it myself.

 

[DMcFadden]

Reading about two different religions.

What? You have a problem with a theologian who specializes in dialectical speak, prolix writing (Church Dogmatics is what, 8,936 pages?), and inviting his mistress/assistant to live with him and his family for decades? Besides, for a supposedly "Reformed" theologian, Barth says so-many deliciously infuriating things. There is no hidden will of God, it is revealed in the Gospel (i.e., election is only of Jesus Christ). God's wrath is merely concealed grace. “The Bible is God’s Word so far as God lets it be His Word, so far as God speaks through it,” Barth opined. Inerrancy is both Docetism and Gnosticism. How about his view that God's freedom implies his freedom to become his opposite? Or, his view that the Reformed view of election is "unchristian" and "anti-christian"? And, don't you just love his idea that the Covenant of Redemption and the Covenant of Works are "tri-theistic" mythology? But, at least for some of you TR, he was a supralapsarian of sorts. He believed that Christ was elected for all men AND rebrobated for all men.

(At least he thought that Baptists like me have it right on the infant baptism issue.)

As Henry Cocks said: "Life is short and Karl Barth is long." Libronix is coming out with an electronic version of his 14 volumes on April 16, 2008 for $299.95. I figure that the only way to work with Barth is in electronic form. Who can master 9,000 pages, much of it in VERY small print? The man was brilliant and arguably the most influential theologian of the last century. However, picking wheat from that weed field of CD would try the patience of Job.