Kyle Barton

Fide homo fit Deus. –Luther

The Lord intends to recover the believers' experience and enjoyment of the eternal life, the all-inclusive Spirit, and Christification. –Witness Lee, CWWL 1972, 3:27

Barth's Romerbrief has been described as: 1. A bomb dropped on the theologian's playground 2. A hermeneutical manifesto 3. Liberative performance art What am I missing?

Happy to receive this in the mail yesterday!

My go-to palindrome is "deified." You have the permission to use this for your next party trick.

When you really want to map the Trinity onto a passage but it's an exegetical stretch. Mt 23:8-10 One is your Teacher One is your Father One is your Instructor, the Christ. The temptation is Jn 14:26, "the Sp will teach you." Im sure someone has tried it! @FredFredSanders

Barth said that 4 hours of lecturing on the Dogmatics to his students involved 30-40 hours of preparation. –Busch bio, p. 373

Ecumenical dialogue “entails much more than bourgeois tolerance or personal empathy; above all, it has to lay aside the complacent superiority of both stubborn revanchists and nimble controversialists, for the simple reason that there are things to be learned.” –John Webster

Barth scales mountains. –von Balthasar

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." michaelramseyprize.org.uk/fe…

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

Backyard theology

"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 fact that Schleiermacher was Schlegel's roommate and Hegel's colleague is insane

My whole theology is fundamentally a theology for pastors. –Karl Barth, Final Testimonies, 23

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