Test received. I am unsure if it is a server issue or result of DOS attacks on Degreeinfo, but I get long pauses when I post. If I just let it cycle it does post though.
Re: Re: Dave H. and Jimmy === Dave-Patience is not my virtue. Jimmy-Please give your proof so I can research it that Barth denies the virginal conception. It seems I have two places in the Dogmatics where he accepts it. So if I'm wrong show me where he says he does not.
Re: Re: Re: Dave H. and Jimmy Bill, Give me a few days. I learned this about Barth when I was at ESR. As a matter of fact, I recall he lost a few professorships due to this belief.
Re: Re: Re: Dave H. and Jimmy Bill, In doing an Internet search I found this: "DENIAL OF THE VIRGIN BIRTH: "He was considered for posts in the conservative faculties of Halle and Freiifswald, but in a strange way his denial of the virgin birth in particular 'twice cost him a professorship." (p. 10)," that comes from the book by Eberhard Busch titled Karl Barth: His Life from Letters and Autobiiographical Texts, translated by John Bowden, Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1975. I am going to get some primary sources this week and share them with you. The course I took also discussed Harnack's denial of the Virgin Birth. For the record, I have no problem believing in the Virgin Birth. With God "all things are possible."
Re: Re: Re: Re: Dave H. and Jimmy === Don't you use any primary sources in these classes you take? BTW how do you know "all things are possible with God"? Maybe that verse is not original or is errant?
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Dave H. and Jimmy This class was taken 22 years ago. I seriously doublt anyone can remember primary sources from that long ago. We used some texts by Barth and texts about him. I don't have any of my ESR books anymore. As a matter of fact, I only kept one book that I just recently gave away. It was Niebuhr's Moral Man and Immoral Society.