Who Is Bultmann? One of the most influential theologians of our time, a man whose significance still continues to grow, is the now eighty-one-year-old German scholar Rudolph Bultmann. For many years he was professor of New Testament at Marburg, and through his great learning he has won for himself an international reputation. His investigations have not […]
“Karl Barth is incontestably the greatest figure in modem theology since Schleiermacher, occupying an honored position among the great elite of the church—Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Luther, and Calvin.”1) Thus writes T. F. Torrance of Scotland, an ardent admirer of Karl Barth. An eminent French writer, C. Casalis, bypasses Schleiermaeher and asserts that “not since Luther […]
“For I reckon that every phenomenon can be seen, if the sight is sound, hanging by some sort of a navel-string to the Infinite womb.” “The only trouble is that the reverberation dies away so soon in the soul and the bog closes around one again.”1 Having been asked to write, from my vantage point as […]
Who has not heard John Dewey referred to from the pulpits in our churches, from platforms, and in panel discussions and symposiums on education? In recent years his name has appeared in newspaper syndicates and editorials dealing with schools and education more frequently than that of any other philosopher and educator of the past. Who Was […]
He has been called “the great reformer of theology at the beginning of the nineteenth century”1; he has also been called “a philosophic enemy of the faith of the church.”2 After his death he was praised by his colleague Neander who declared: “With him will once begin a new period in the history of the church.” This […]