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...illume a cover subject. In Chicago, Correspondent Miriam Rumwell last week picked up the trail of Earth on his first visit to the U.S. and ended up by taking him and his son Markus to an evening more satirical than theological, at Chicago's Second City night club. Barth has never held that it is untheological to laugh...
...20th century, no man has been a stronger witness to the continuing significance of Christ's death and Christ's return than the world's ranking Protestant theologian, Swiss-born Karl Barth (rhymes with heart). Barth knows that the Gospel accounts of the Resurrection are not coherent, but he refuses to make the mystery more palatable to human reason by suggesting-as did the great 19th century Theologian D. F. Strauss in his Life of Jesus-that the story of the crucifixion is a "myth." Instead, Barth argues that the subject of this unique event...
...want to believe in the living Christ?" says Barth. "We may believe in him only if we believe in his corporeal resurrection. This is the content of the New Testament. We are always free to reject it, but not to modify it, nor to pretend that the New Testament tells something else. We may accept or refuse the message, but we may not change...
Love & Scorn. Last week, at the age of 75, the author of this challenge to modern skepticism was enjoying his first visit to the U.S.-a country whose history he loves and whose way of life he professes to scorn. Arriving in Chicago, Barth quickly found time to check theatrical versions of that life, saw performances of two plays by Edward Albee, and the current review of the iconoclastic troupe that performs in a coffeehouse-nightclub called The Second City. Among Protestant theologians, Barth's arrival has caused as much stir as would a visit by the Pope...
...Barth has been variously damned as a heretic, a narrow-minded Biblicist, and an atheist in disguise-and praised as the most creative Protestant theologian since John Calvin. President James McCord of Princeton