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Categories = ‘quotations + theology’
Nov 2007
25
Barth on Mary and Jesus
Given Barth’s well-known polemical style, this quotation is perhaps not that surprising: Mariology is an excrescence, i.e. a diseased construct of theological thought. Excrescences must be exised. Bar..
Nov 2007
10
Barth on the Trinity
Barth, subtle as always: All theological favouritisms are... forbidden: the one-sided belief in God the Father which was customary in the Enlightenment; the so-called Christocentrism which Pietism lov..
Nov 2007
2
Barth on Liturgy and the Apostolic Succession
I’m currently reading a lot of Barth. Expect more quotations to come! It is a strange thing that when there are revisions of books of order and hymn-books in the Evangelical churches every possible au..
Apr 2007
22
‘The Love of God’ or the Cross?
I visited a local church today for a baptism communion service. In some respects it was my ideal service (over in just under an hour and a quarter, very friendly, lots of families and kids), but I was..