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Feb 2, 2023 · God, according to Barth, has placed him in an impossible dilemma, where the closest thing to obedience, and the most pious option, is to stay in an adulterous relationship. Gregory of Nazianzus and Consecration. This is bad theology. How could someone as undeniably brilliant as Barth reason so poorly?
Oct 20, 2017 · It wasn’t merely that Barth had committed adultery or that a great theologian was shown to be not so great in his personal life. As church history shows time and again, sin is no respecter of...
Oct 19, 2017 · It’s hard to hear how he justified the adultery when he otherwise was such a thoughtful theologian. ERB: With cases like that of Karl Barth and John Howard Yoder, who sexually abused a disturbing number of women, how should we treat the theological work of men like these?
Oct 9, 2017 · Speculative rumors were silenced when the Karl Barth's correspondence with Eduard Thurneysen from 1930-1935 was published, which contained private letters from Karl Barth, Nelly Barth and Charlotte von Kirschbaum. So after 2000, the "constellation" (as Tietz called it) of Barth's relationships, was generally well known, and the 2008 publication ...
Jun 25, 2020 · Unfortunately, it’s not so easy. Barth rationalizes his adultery in a way that runs counter to his theology. Perhaps not just Barth’s life, but his theology, were both flawed. Barth, as I’ve argued, asserted that we must ground our theology in the revelation of Jesus Christ as revealed in Scripture.
Apr 3, 2019 · Footnote 6 But Thurneysen's primary loyalty was always to Karl Barth, and so rather more revealing and powerful are letters from the 1920s and 1930s – the most agonising years in the drama – written by Nelly to her most intimate and partisan confidantes, to her mother, sisters and closest friends, in the Karl Barth Archive. A third reason ...
Apr 19, 2024 · Almost seven years ago now I wrote a post based on Christiane Tietz’s just released essay (at that point) where she offers some of Karl Barth’s and Charlotte von Kirschbaum’s love letters, translated for the first time from their original German into English. My initial blog post ended up going relatively “viral” in the theo-blogosphere, and eventually, beyond. My post, and then
