Theology PhD student @Baylor | MDiv @ptseminary
Waco, TX
Joined July 2011
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Q: What are some books (of any genre) you regularly reread?
DB Hart: "The Alice books, The Wind in the Willows, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Moby-Dick, Pale Fire, the stories of Borges."
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Barth's utterances on this topic, as on others, are fascinating but Delphic in everything but length.
–Alvin Plantinga
Despite continuing debate, the guild, as one might have anticipated, has reached general agreement about next to nothing.
–Dale Allison
Re: Rom 1:3-4 christology, but more broadly true at times lol
"A major... has always been a basic key in my own life." –Karl Barth, said in relation to Mozart
Whatever could he mean by this? Music theorists, help!
Dogmatics is never more than a faint image and a weak likeness of the Word of God.
–Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics, 1:55
"Kant’s book on religion is what Hans Frei said he would take if he were exiled to a desert island." (!)
–George Hunsinger, class notes
The Blessed Trinity inhabits the soul by divinely illumining its intellect with the wisdom of the Son, delighting its will in the Holy Spirit, and absorbing it powerfully and mightily in the unfathomed embrace of the Father's sweetness.
–Jon of the Cross
Never has any person in our day, with the possible exception of Albert Einstein, so convinced me by his mere existence that faith in God is rational.
–Carl Zuckmayer about Karl Barth
Agree. I am always baffled by this. Airplanes used to be the last bastion of reflective thought. In praise of Lo-fi.
I wrote briefly about this awhile back: conversantfaith.com/2011/10/…
Novalis beat Marx to the punch:
"Their so-called religion works merely as an opiate—stimulating—numbing—quieting pain by dulling it.” (#76)
None other than Norman Russell saying that Barth holds “the key to a… modern approach to deification”!
Why have Barth scholars not taken note?
