This past week, I joined a Zoom meeting with employees of a private institution where I serve on the Board. We were discussing some financial policy changes. Being on the Board is like walking a tightrope; I must balance support for the institution while providing oversight. As a former manager of …
Karl Barth on Vocation (Part IV)
In my first three blogs on Karl Barth’s theology of vocation found in Church Dogmatics: The Doctrine of Creation III.4 (Freedom in Limitation, Chapter XII, Section 56, T&T Clark International, G. W. Bromiley & T. F. Torrance, Editors, 1960, pages 565–647), Barth commented on the process …
Karl Barth on Vocation (Part III)
In my second blog on Karl Barth’s theology of vocation, I wrote about Barth’s second (historical situation), third (internal limitations), and fourth vocation criterion (sphere of operations). He continues this vocation section in Church Dogmatics: The Doctrine of Creation III.4 (Freedom in …
Karl Barth on Vocation (Part II)
In my first blog on Karl Barth’s theology of vocation, I wrote about Barth’s criterion of an individual’s responsibility to the commands of God, the caller. Humans are becoming even as they are perishing. Barth continues in Church Dogmatics: The Doctrine of Creation III.4 (Freedom in Limitation, …