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Pastor Barth recognized this more than anyone else. He saw clearly that nineteenth-century dogmatics had conceded too much ground to the closed-world structures of the immanent frame. This immanence, and the unthought reduction that God cannot move and speak in history, kept the church from obedience.
Andrew Root • Churches and the Crisis of Decline
Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, J.W. Doberstein (Translator) • Life Together
Instead of accusing modernity of overlooking the explanation of God (common among American fundamentalists) and instead of conceding and therefore correlating all explanations for God to the explanations of modernity’s immanence (what Barth accuses Schleiermacher of doing), Barth just refuses to explain at all! The refusal to explain becomes the st
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Barth pushes for something deeper and more difficult than simply showing that the immanent frame is open to transcendence. Barth seeks to show that the immanent frame is open to encounters with the transcendent God who is God. This God who is God is known not outside the world but deeply within it. God acts in the world, and only through God’s acts
... See moreAndrew Root • Churches and the Crisis of Decline
Barth is not interested in transcendence that escapes the world. He wants to find a way to encounter God who is God in the world. Barth seeks transcendence in the world, a historical transcendence.
Andrew Root • Churches and the Crisis of Decline
