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Building in the wreckage: the reconstruction of Christian theology : Comments
By Peter Sellick, published 9/4/2014Such a theology would abandon any idea that the thinking individual may come to clear and certain truths by means of his own reason. Descartes' promise has turned out to be absurd.
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Thanks for another thought-provoking piece and a constructive one, explaining where you think theology should go as well as what is currently wrong with it!
While I have great respect for Barth, I wonder if his theology is a little too circular in its reasoning and referencing. Perhaps we can’t argue the existence of a creator from the existence of creation (though St. Paul might disagree – Romans 1:20). But to entirely separate theology from other means of human knowing ultimately denies the meaningfulness of free will or the proposal that humanity is created in God’s image. Bonhoeffer’s famous critique of Barth, that he proposed a “positivist doctrine of revelation”, seems to me to have merit.