“Within the creation, God\u2019s reality is so unobtrusive that it is possible to fail to see that a God even exists. God\u2019s power is of an altogether different order than the power structures of this world. God conquers through suffering love.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[Religion Online] [The Karl Barth Centennial: An Appreciative Critique]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Barth reasserted “orthodoxy,” but with the proviso that God\u2019s capacity to suffer was the proof of his true lordship. Thus Barth\u2019s “neo-orthodoxy” stood in remarkable tension with 18 centuries of orthodoxy and, for that matter, with mainstream liberalism as well, for both, in their own ways, denied God\u2019s suffering.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“from all eternity God has determined upon man\u2019s acquittal at his own cost” (Dogmatics II, 2, p. 167). Therefore, “there is no such thing as a created nature which has its purpose, being or continuance apart from Grace” (p. 92). Such a universalistic understanding of God\u2019s suffering love constitutes a drastic reversal of the terrible inscrutable darkness of the secret will of the God of Luther and Calvin.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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“Within the creation, God\u2019s reality is so unobtrusive that it is possible to fail to see that a God even exists. God\u2019s power is of an altogether different order than the power structures of this<\/p>\n