Month: September 2010

My piece on Barth and Bonhoeffer is up at the Karl Barth Blog Conference

Post author By Andy Rowell
Post date September 29, 2010

My piece on Barth and Bonhoeffer is up at the Karl Barth Blog Conference.

I am responding to a piece by Matt Puffer, a Religious Studies doctoral student in Theology, Ethics, and Culture at the University of Virginia.

My piece is called:

Response – Supplementing Puffer’s Thesis: Barth’s Growing Appreciation for Bonhoeffer

The Karl Barth Blog Conference is an online three week conference organized by W. Travis McMaken and David Congdon, two Ph.D. students in systematic theology at Princeton Theological Seminary.

Karl Barth

Karl Barth on the audacity to write

Post author By Andy Rowell
Post date September 27, 2010
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"I only ask myself whether you might not and could not do what I have so often done: begin with a certain audacity to write (quite without reflection whether or not what you write is new or good, etc.) without hesitating until you are finished so that you have on paper, a corpus of, let us say, fifteen or twenty chapters, out of which then the remainder could crystallize and which could then be always worked over."

36 year old Karl Barth to his good friend 34 year old pastor Eduard Thurneysen on February 16,1923.

Karl Barth and Eduard Thurneysen, Revolutionary Theology in the Making: Barth-Thurneysen Correspondence, 1914-1925 (Translated by James D. Smart), Richmond: John Knox Press, 1964, p. 132.

Sociology

My Books & Culture review of Bradley Wright’s Christians Are Hate-Filled Hypocrites is online today

Post author By Andy Rowell
Post date September 23, 2010

My Books & Culture review was posted online today:

Christians Are Hate-Filled Hypocrites

Or are they? A sociologist investigates.

A review of Bradley Wright's book Christians
Are Hate-Filled Hypocrites…and Other Lies You've Been Told: A
Sociologist Shatters Myths From the Secular and Christian Media (July 1, 2010).