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...Wesleyan," after Methodism's spellbinding, peripatetic founder, John Wesley. But, recalls Kennedy, there are some zigzags in his spiritual development. In the 19305 he went through a strong neo-orthodox phase: "I took to neo-orthodoxy the way Methodists take to organization." The theology of Niebuhr and Barth "rescued me from the tranquilizing theory of inevitable evolutionary progress and restored the sense of God's majesty. But as the years went by, my ardor was cooled by the tendency of so many of the brethren to state extreme positions in order to be noticed. A professor of mine...
...that trend may have gone too far, and recently Theologian Niebuhr has turned his Protestant protest against "the deification of the Scriptures and of the church." Followers of Karl Barth (TIME, March 7) and some other leading Protestants, Niebuhr feels, "have substituted for the religion-centered faith of the 19th century a church-centered faith, as though the historical and visible church were the representative of God on earth, as though the Bible were the only word that God is speaking...
This gives Barth's book its title-the humanity of God. "It signifies the God who speaks with man in promise and command. It represents God's existence, intercession, and activity for man, the intercourse God holds with him, and the free grace in which He wills to be and is nothing other than...
...Private Christianity. A major consequence of this conception for Barth's theology is a newly positive attitude toward the church. "It was a part of the exaggerations of which we were guilty in 1920," he admits, "that we were able to see the theological relevance of the Church only as a negative counterpart to the Kingdom of God which we had then so happily rediscovered. We wanted to interpret the form of the Church's doctrine, its worship, its juridical order as 'human, all too human,' as 'not so important . . .' In all this...
...Barth holds the orthodox view of the church as essential for salvation...