Category Archives: Analogia Fidei

Analogical Knowledge of God in the Theology of Thomas Torrance

Posted on March 11, 2018 by

Analogy for the Christian’s knowledge of God is an important feature. We have referred to Thomas Aquinas’s analogia entis (analogy of being) frequently here at the blog; on the other hand we have referred to Karl Barth’s analogia fidei/relationis as … Continue reading →

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Richard Muller and Scott Oliphint Both Need to Repent: Responding to the Thomas Aquinas Analogy of Being Discussion Through Barth

Posted on February 19, 2018 by

I have been interested in the locus known as analogia entis, or ‘analogy of being’ for a long time; and have written about it as well. I have also been reading Richard Muller for many years, and have read most … Continue reading →

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Analogy of Beings, Prolongations of God-Consciousness, and Mediation of Knowledge of God: Jesus

Posted on January 26, 2018 by

Analogia entis (analogy of being) has been on my radar ever since I heard the term; the first time I heard it, just on a purely linguistic/semantic level, it intrigued me—the sound of it when verbalized. It is something I’ve … Continue reading →

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Martin Luther the Theologian of Beauty: Contra Analogy of Being, David Bentley Hart, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri de Lubac, Nouvelle Théologie, and even Karl Barth (?)

Posted on January 22, 2018 by

I can go with beauty as a way into knowing God, but I cannot go with beauty as an a priori transcendental as identified by the philosophers as a way to know God; I am with Luther in identifying God’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Analogia Entis, Analogia Fidei, Analogy of Being, Analogy of Faith, Mark Mattes, Martin Luther | 5 Comments

Germans, Decrees, and “A God Behind the Back of Jesus”

Posted on December 11, 2017 by

This was the topic of my only offering to Christianity Today (2013); the issue of God’s so called transcendence and immanence, relative to the creaturely order. My article was a contribution to their Global Gospel Project, and in it I … Continue reading →

Posted in Analogia Fidei, Analogy of Being, Barth, Classical Theism, David Congdon, Dialectical Theology, T. F. Torrance, Theory of Revelation | 1 Comment

The Mystery of God: Knowing God, the Ineffable One, In the Dialectic of the God-man, Jesus Christ

Posted on November 18, 2017 by

23 “Am I only a God nearby,” declares the Lord, “and not a God far away? –Jeremiah 23:23 Here at the Evangelical Calvinist, personally, I’m inclined to follow what is known as a cataphatic mode of theological endeavor rather than an apophatic … Continue reading →

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God Has Spoken: He Sounds Like Jesus Christ

Posted on September 25, 2017 by

Emil Brunner and Karl Barth famously had a serious quarrel, even fall-out, over Barth’s perception of ‘natural theology’ in Brunner’s approach. While it is true that Brunner affirmed something like Calvin’s sensus divinitatis, he also has some very strong points … Continue reading →

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I Don’t Think God, Neither Do You: God Speaks For and Names Himself

Posted on February 22, 2017 by

Emil Brunner and Karl Barth famously had a serious quarrel, even fall-out, over Barth’s perception of ‘natural theology’ in Brunner’s approach. While it is true that Brunner affirmed something like Calvin’s sensus divinitatis, he also has some very strong points … Continue reading →

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‘Parables’ and the ‘Analogy of Faith’ in the Theology of Barth’s Romans II

Posted on November 26, 2016 by

As we all know by now Karl Barth was not a proponent of natural theology, or the analogia entis (‘analogy of being’). But what we do find in Barth is an appeal to ‘secular parables,’ something equivalent to what Thomas … Continue reading →

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We Don’t Need Nature, We Only Need Jesus to Know God

Posted on November 7, 2016 by

I know natural theology, or the idea that God can be known through simple discovery and reflection on nature is quite popular among contemporary Christians as well as in the tradition. But as I read the Bible this seemingly intuitive … Continue reading →

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