This past week I finished reading Susan Ottaway’s 2003 book, ‘Hitler’s Traitors.’ I had borrowed this with the purpose of… Read more Teaching History With Hitler’s Traitors
Category: Confessing Church
Review: No Ordinary Men, Dietrich Bonhoeffer & Hans von Dohnanyi
Elisabeth Sifton and Fritz Stern’s, 2013 publication, ‘No Ordinary Men: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnanyi,’ is, to loosely apply… Read more Review: No Ordinary Men, Dietrich Bonhoeffer & Hans von Dohnanyi
Barth: ‘The Confessing Church Was A Decisive “No”‘ To Blind Acquiescence [Video]
Here is a pretty cool primary source provided by kbarth.org via YouTube. This follows on from my post a few days back about… Read more Barth: ‘The Confessing Church Was A Decisive “No”‘ To Blind Acquiescence [Video]
The Confessing Church’s “Nein” & Natural Theology
This past week I’ve posted two brief reflections on Eberhard Busch’s lectures featured in ‘The Barmen Theses: Then and Now’. … Read more The Confessing Church’s “Nein” & Natural Theology
The Church, The State & The Royal Lordship of Jesus Christ
The clear intent of ‘The Barmen Declaration’ is found in its authors struggle to find balance. They did this by… Read more The Church, The State & The Royal Lordship of Jesus Christ
Eberhard Busch: The Prayer of Jesus Is The First Act In Christian Ethics
‘Pray consistently and never quit’ – Jesus. (Luke 18, The Message) It has been some time since I last… Read more Eberhard Busch: The Prayer of Jesus Is The First Act In Christian Ethics
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Lent 1933
A Collection of Sermons from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, something I’ve been hanging out to read for a while, arrived today. In the process… Read more Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Lent 1933
Barth: In Jesus Christ Sin Is Condemned By Omission
Here are some highlights from Barth’s discussion on Christology in Church Dogmatics 1:2. These don’t convey the full gravitas of his… Read more Barth: In Jesus Christ Sin Is Condemned By Omission
Grace Over the Abyss
‘…One night in 1930, the French occupation forces left the city of Speyer, and the German army took over. Teachers and… Read more Grace Over the Abyss
aRt and tHeOlOgY: Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
Reading through Metaxas’ biography of Dietrich Bonheoffer I have discovered the importance of the ‘Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church’ in Berlin. It… Read more aRt and tHeOlOgY: Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
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