Part One
INTRODUCTION: 5 CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker
INTRODUCTION: 5 CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker
Neo-orthodoxy
is based upon existential premises, as stated earlier. Karl Barth arose as
champion of this system of theology at the close of World War II. Two wars had
completely overthrown the optimism of the liberal theology which had led people
to believe that man was able by himself to solve all of the world’s problems
through a social gospel. It was time for the pendulum to swing back, and Barth
called men back to the reality of sin and to the transcendence of God. He
opposed all natural theology and science as giving any revelation of God. The Bible
to Barth was not an objective revelation of God: it was a human and fallible book,
but it had the ability of becoming the word of God in the existential encounter
of man with God. Barth represented a partial return to orthodoxy. His views
have also been called “Crisis Theology,” because it holds that all human institutions
are inevitably confounded by their own contradictions and that the crisis which
results from this forces man to despair of his own efforts and may cause him to
turn to divine revelation and grace in faith. Barthianism is also called
Dialectical Theology because of its use of the dialectic method.
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