Here is the recording for our first session of Adventures in Barth: The Barmen Declaration, in which we discussed Karl Barth’s first thesis, repudiating the accommodation of the German Protestant Church to populist fervor in the 1930’s.
Thesis 1:
1. “I am the Way and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6
“Very truly, I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold through the gate but climbs in by another way is a thief and a bandit. I am the gate. Whoever enters by me will be saved.” John 10:1,9
Jesus Christ, as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture, is the one Word of God whom we have to hear, and whom we have to trust and obey in life and in death.
We reject the false doctrine that the Church could and should recognize as a source of its proclamation, beyond and besides this one Word of God, yet other events, powers, historic figures and truths as God’s revelation.
Adventures in Barth: The Barmen Declaration