the Christian theology of religions. Introduction A remarkable revival of Trinitarian theology emerged in the twentieth century. Karl Rahner, on the Catholic side, and Karl Barth, on the Protestant side, played key roles in the “ecumenical rediscovery” of the Trinity. In addition to rethinking elements of this central doctrine (e.g., nature of divine personhood, Filioque, etc.), this resurgence...

This essay argues for the possibility of a ‘Barthian’ Mariology particularly through an analysis human agency. I first show that Karl Barth's articulation Mary in I/2 Church Dogmatics marginalizes Mary's agency part due to his anti-Roman Catholic polemic and gender binary. then correct Barth with by showing how mature Christology advances account commensurate Mariology. With this Christological...

This paper presents a justification for Christian theodicy. It starts by critiquing William H. Gass’s depiction of Christianity as superstitious, ignorant, and evil. shows that his view is based on caricature (that is, God quasi-gnostic Demiurge) the understanding evil totally ignores misses contributions (what I call) Classical View theodicy within intellectual tradition from Origen to Karl Ba...

This article explores Karl Barth’s exegesis of the ‘sepultus est…’ from Apostles’ Creed, as articulated in his 1935 Credo lectures. I argue that Barth accords sepultus a degree theological significance is against grain, not only majority western interpretations Jesus’s burial, but also own later interpretation it within Kirchliche Dogmatik. Specifically, this argues lectures, exegetes terms div...