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...think we are on the threshold of a whole new era in theology," says James McCord, Presbyterian president of Princeton Theological Seminary. He believes that the God-the-Father theology of the centuries after the Reformation, and the more recent God-the-Son theology of Karl Barth, Rudolph Bultmann and Paul Tillich are giving way in stress to the third person of the Trinity. The new emphasis, McCord suggests, will be on the Holy Spirit-"the God of the present...
GILES GOAT-BOY by John Barth. 710 pages. Doubleday...
...asked to name the most influential work of modern Christian thought, older Protestant divines might point to Karl Barth's powerful commentary on The Epistle to the Romans or Paul Tillich's Systematic Theology. Younger ministers, on the other hand, would be far more likely to cite a book that is scarcely more than an elliptical fragment of theology, since it was never intended for publication at all. It is the Letters and Papers from Prison by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the now-famed German Lutheran pastor who was arrested and later executed by the Nazis...
...century's greatest Protestant theologian, Karl Barth of Switzerland, has consistently warned his fellow churchmen that God is a "wholly other" being, whom man can only know by God's self-revelation in the person of Christ, as witnessed by Scripture. Any search for God that starts with human experience, Barth warns, is a vain quest that will discover only an idol, not the true...
Three members of this Yardling quintet will probably start next year. Two of the three could be forwards Barth Royer and Chris Gallaghor. Royer leads the freshmen with a 15.7 scoring average and has looped as many as 33 points in a game. One tenth of a point below Royer's average, at 15.6, is Gallaghor, whose hottest night produced 28 points...