The McKrakenCast
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Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
Karl Barth: Spiritual Writings - A conversation with the editors
Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
Join me for a conversation with Dr. Ash Cocksworth (Twitter, University of Roehampton) as we talk about our recently released co-edited volume, Karl Barth: Spiritual Writings, in the Paulist Press Classics of Western Spirituality series. We discuss how Ash and I got to know each other and came to work together on this volume, what our favorite things about the book are, who should read the book, how politics relates to spirituality, and much more. Marmite even comes up at one point and a brilliant bit of wordplay by yours truly falls totally flat. It was a fun conversation.Ash and I were joined by my friend, Dr. Kate Hanch (Twitter, First St. Charles United Methodist Church), who functioned as our special guest host and moderator for the conversation. Once you’ve ordered your copy of Karl Barth: Spiritual Writings, head over to Fortress Press to pre-order Kate’s forthcoming book, Storied Witness: The Theology of Black Women Preachers in 19th-Century America.
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Tuesday May 26, 2020
Barth's "Göttingen Dogmatics" - §3: Deus Dixit (“God has spoken”)
Tuesday May 26, 2020
Tuesday May 26, 2020
We return to Barth’s first dogmatics lectures, and to the elaboration of one of his key theological concepts – both in this earlier period as well as throughout his later Church Dogmatics, although there it recedes into the background a bit despite continuing to be of foundational importance: Deus dixit, God has spoken.
This is part 4 of a multi-part series. You can find the series index here. Click here for the blog post corresponding to this episode, and click here to access this content on YouTube.
I begin the audio recordings by reading Barth’s Diktatsatz, so I will begin reproducing that here as well. The bold is mine and indicates where I find emphasis:
Christian preachers dare to speak about God. The permission and requirement to do so can rest only on their adoption of the witness of the prophets and apostles that underlies the church, the witness which is to the effect that God himself has spoken and that for this reason, and with this reference, they too must speak about God. This assumption can arise only because they take it that God’s address is directed to them as well. It means that with fear and trembling they recognize God as the true subject of the biblical witness and their own proclamation.
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Thursday Jul 18, 2019
Barth's "Göttingen Dogmatics" - Introduction
Thursday Jul 18, 2019
Thursday Jul 18, 2019
Travel with me back to the early 1920s and Karl Barth's first attempt at writing a dogmatics. Launched while teaching at the University of Göttingen, this was the genesis of the material that would become Church Dogmatics approximately a decade later. What we call the Göttingen Dogmatics in English is especially interesting to me because it is much closer to Barth's work as pastor-cum-socialist organizer. This is the first of a multi-part series, and it is the first series that I have produced primarily for the podcast medium. It is also available on YouTube. Make sure to subscribe via your preferred site. Find episode 2 here, and get the series index here.
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Friday Jun 28, 2019
Helmut Gollwitzer on Karl Barth and Socialism: An Excerpt
Friday Jun 28, 2019
Friday Jun 28, 2019
This is an excerpt from an essay by Helmut Gollwitzer about Karl Barth and socialism.
Available in video format.
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Excerpt source: Helmut Gollwitzer, "Kingdom of God and Socialism in the Theology of Karl Barth," in George Hunsinger (ed., trans.), Karl Barth and Radical Politics, 2nd ed. (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2017), 83-85.
Image source and attribution: Stiftung Haus der Geschichte [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)].
Wednesday Apr 24, 2019
Helmut Gollwitzer: Forgotten Left-Wing Barthian
Wednesday Apr 24, 2019
Wednesday Apr 24, 2019
This is the live recording of my presentation to the Karl Barth Society of North America at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Boston (2017), with a brief, informal introduction by George Hunsinger.
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Monday Apr 22, 2019
Top 5 Books I Read in 2017
Monday Apr 22, 2019
Monday Apr 22, 2019
I read a lot of books in 2017. Here are my top 5.
Featured books:
(#OGLJ) McMaken, Our God Loves Justice
Ch’en, Buddhism in China
Cone, The Cross and the Lynching Tree
Van Buren, Christ in Context
Tillich, The Socialist Decision
Prum, The Evolution of Beauty