Word: barthianism
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Almost unknown in the world of scholarship, Gollwitzer was emerging as a man after Neutralist Barth's own heart, whether or not Basel's nervous municipal authorities, who have the final say, decide to swallow their unease. "Gollwitzer," said one Barthian, "is not out to support those who would like to sweeten their political coffee with the sugar of Western Christian culture...
...Karl Earth, the only other system builder among the leading contemporary theologians, completely rejects Tillich's coupling of existential question and religious answer. God did not wait to be asked, maintains Barth; he spoke and acted, and the whole twelve long volumes (in progress) of the Barthian system are based solidly on the record of what he said and did-the Bible. To Barth the Biblical message is "thrown like a stone" at man, not accommodated to his existential agonies. Tillich's "Unconditional" term for God, Barth has called "a frigid monstrosity." And U.S. Theologian Nels F.S. Ferr...
Tillich adapted Earth's emphasis on the Bible and personal salvation, but he could not stomach the Barthian conviction that it is impossible to project the Word of God into the context of modern culture. Neither nature nor civilization is wholly evil, Tillich protested. On the contrary, he wrote, "God reveals himself not only in history but also through history as a whole." His conclusion: without losing his image of Christ as Savior, the Christian must adjust the externals of his faith, his philosophy and culture to the circumstances of the time. The Protestant religions, for example, resulted from...
...which the Modern Man is approached by a Fundamentalist with an enormous Bible, a pompous Anglo-Catholic, a cordial member of the Buchman Groups, a Modernist who cuts most of his Bible into little bits. None succeeds in rousing Modern Man from his sleep. At last comes a Barthian. He is successful...