Round one KBBC: Matt Bruce on Barth and Schleiermacher

Matt Bruce's paper on Barth and Schleiermacher has been posted. Go check it out. I will also be linking every paper and giving updates throughout the week.

2010 KBBC: Week 1, Outline and Biographical Information

 The line up for Week one of the Karl Barth Blog conference is now posted. My paper will appear on Tuesday so I would love your comments and feedback. Enjoy
2010 KBBC: Week 1, Outline and Biographical Information | Der Evangelische Theologe

It Has Begun: 2010 Karl Barth Blog Conference

Travis McMaken has just published the opening remarks for this years 2010 Karl Barth Blog Conference. Go check it out! Essays will continue to be posted for the next couple of weeks.

2010 Karl Barth Blog Conference (Just A Heads Up)

The 2010 Karl Barth Blog Conference will commence this Sunday September, 27 2010 with opening remarks from the conference host Travis McMaken. Travis (Der Evangelische Theologe) and David Congdon (The Fire and the Rose) worked hard putting this conference together so make sure to check it out.

Look out for my paper entitled: The Proper Task of Dogmatics and the Nature of Revelation: Karl Barth and Herman Bavinck on the Deus Dixit.

It's going to be a good conference with a lot of good papers. 

Barth on Election and Ephesians 1

I have been reading through CD II and was captivated by a small section in which Barth discusses election and his understanding of the "in him" of Ephesians 1:4. This is one example of Barth's emphasis on participation. Please read Adam Neder's exceptional little book Participation in Christ: An Entry into Karl Barth's Church Dogmaitcs, for a fuller account of this theme in Barth's theology.

"From the very beginning (from eternity itself), there are no other elect together with or apart from Him, but, as Eph. 1:4 tells us, only 'in' Him. 'In Him' does not simply mean with Him, together with Him, in His company. Nor does it mean only through Him, by means of that which He as elected [human] can be and do for them. 'In Him' means in His person, in His will, in His own divine choice, in the basic decision of God which He fulfills over against every [human]. What singles Him out from the rest of the elect, and yet also, and for the first time, unites Him with them, is the fact that as elected [human] He is also the electing God, electing them in His own humanity. In that He (as God) wills Himself (as [human]), He also wills them. And so they are elect 'in Him,' in and with His own election."[1]

[1]Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics II.2: The Doctrine of God, Study Edition. Edited by G.W. Bromiley and T.F. Torrance. Translated by G.W. Bromiley (London: T&T Clark, 2009), 124