church dogmatics I/1
Barth's outline:
The Doctrine of the Word of GodIntroduction
§ 1. The Task of Dogmatics § 2. The Task of Prolegomena to Dogmatics
Chapter I. The Word as the Criterion of Dogmatics
§3. Church Proclamation as the Material of Dogmatics §4. The Word of God in its Threefold Form §5. The Nature of the Word of God §6. The Knowability of the Word of God §7. The Word of God, Dogma & Dogmatics
Chapter II. The Revelation of God
Part I. The Triune God
§8. God in His Revelation §9. The Triunity of God §10. God the Father §11. God the Son §12. God the Holy Spirit
My bits of Barth:
April 29, 2011 [9]
April 30, 2011 [3]
May 1, 2011 [14]
May 2, 2011 [21]
May 3, 2011 [1]
May 4, 2011 [19]
May 5, 2011 [4]
May 6, 2011 [35]
bits of barth
"What has to happen in order that the proclamation of the church may be the Word of God...has already happened" http://goo.gl/XUjJU
"of God it is impossible to speak… if we speak of Him, we are no longer speaking of Him" http://goo.gl/8fYbW
"if [we] are dependent on prayer, undoubtedly [we] are also dependent on serious & honest work"
"Christian preaching is speaking about God in the name of Jesus Christ"
"is not the Church completely lost if the grace of the Word of God is not at all points mightier than the weakness of man?"
the danger of wanting the Word of God without God, bringing it under our power & understanding: http://t.co/Zm4w2pl
truth, beauty & heresy : t.co/1xejVdi
"as though man has to make the Word of God powerful by the weight of his own will..." t.co/hIBmVn2
"though their doctrine is imperiled by their errors, it does not exclude them from the one Church which is ours." t.co/VLTwLri
"the ghosts of the true Church of the past may lead the Church astray no less than the spirits of the present" t.co/2qpeEsG
"for it is an honour & a joy, an inner necessity & a gracious privilege to serve & therefore to teach the Word of God"
bits of barth
Barth CD I/2 10:24 am
testify: http://goo.gl/UFPs0
"called by the Church into the Church, we ourselves become the Church into which we are called" http://goo.gl/fgK1z
"the content of the Bible & the object of its witness is Jesus Christ as the name of the God who deals graciously with man the sinner"
"the Bible becomes clear when it is clear that it says this one thing: that it proclaims the name Jesus Christ"
"there has never yet been an expositor who has allowed only Scripture alone to speak... no one does that, for no one can"
"if we are not to dispute the incarnation... we cannot contest the use of philosophy in scriptural exegesis" http://goo.gl/BR2kL
bits of barth
Barth CD I/2 7:47 pm
"the leaven is really hidden. the grain of wheat must really die"
"all other forms of Church government are, therefore, false" http://goo.gl/CFzvJ
"because it is the decisive activity prayer must take precedence even of exegesis, and in no circumstances must it be suspended"
bits of barth
Barth CD I/2 12:08 am
"it is not the acuity & depth, nor even the holiness of the Christian which builds the Church, but only the Word of God"
"without the No the Yes would obviously not be a Yes, but a Yes & No; perhaps Yes, perhaps No, but certainly not the [decisive] Yes"
"the confessional documents of the Reformation must be regarded not as theological ordinances but as the trumpet call of a herald"
"for those who confess... because of its publicity, they are led into a struggle, into suffering & into temptation"
barth on confessions, conversations, confutations & theological treachery. feisty stuff. http://goo.gl/lGg5x
"the churches of india & china may ask what have we to do w/ the heresies to which the dogma of the european churches is an answer?"
"there is a notorious connexion, even a unity, between the heresies of every age & place"
"since the Reformation and the time immediately after there has never been a new confession in the Protestant sphere"
bits of barth
Barth CD I/2 11:24 am
eugene peterson, karl barth & : why I'm still tweeting cryptic bits of barth http://goo.gl/qvl8K
"the Church is no longer the Church where it does not know a higher authority than its own"
"...for the Word of God is not spoken to individuals, but to the Church of God, and to individuals only in the Church"
barth's beautiful & brilliant account of why & how to confess our faith in public, with confidence & humility: http://goo.gl/VzaXl
"...before I myself make a confession I must myself have heard the confession of the Church"
"if I have not heard the Church, I cannot speak to it…"
"I cannot thrust myself into the debate about a right faith which goes on in the Church without first having listened…"
"my first duty is to love & respect [the confession of the Church] as the witness of my fathers & brethren..." http://goo.gl/CnsCX
If he keeps writing like this, I will no longer be able to simply listen & process at a safe distance… http://goo.gl/CnsCX
"the immediate goal & necessary result of a debate on true faith is that those who take part in it should make a common confession"
"wherever there is this agreement, & therefore a Church, debate about true faith has reached its goal"
bits of barth
Barth CD I/2 9:39 am
"If Holy Scripture is not the Word of God... it is possible to have a Church of ineffective although quite impeccable orthodoxy"