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| Karl Barth paid his mistress pennies for doing his research work, for sleeping with him, and for ghosting his Dogmatics. His children seem to be instrumental in getting the facts out about Charlotte Kirschbaum and their father. |
Frank Fiorenza was my theology professor at Notre Dame and later landed an endowed professorship at Harvard. President of the Karl Barth Society at one time, he taught that Barth's mistress - Charlotte Kirschbaum - wrote the fine print in the Dogmatics while Karl wrote the large print. That was the consensus of the Barthians.
My friend from Yale, now teaching at Princeton, wrote about Barth's Marxist radicalism. The Nazis were bad but the Communists could do no wrong, according to Barth. Here is a sanitized bio of Barth, but look where he met his wife Nelly...teaching confirmation class.
Barth's influenced the early leaders of Fuller Seminary to abandon their weak stance on Biblical infallibility and reject it altogether. They did not want "doctrine" to stand in the way of "mission," which should be a solemn warning to the Lutherans who look at Fuller with awe and envy. Like Barth, they are flyweights, pretenders, thieves, wolves, robbers, and snake-oil salesmen.
I was thinking about Barth this week when I recalled Robert Preus discussing the theologian - and all large theology books. "Read the introduction," Preus said, "and you will not need to plow through the rest of the book."
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| "Give me ten bots, who are stout-hearted bots, and I'll soon give you ten thousand more." Never underestimate the stupidity of large groups of synod leaders. |
In his Dogmatics, Volume II, Part 2 (or 2-2, Barthians say), Barth developed this idea - Jesus became the Reprobate, taking on the sins of the world. Does that mean a "restoration of all things"? The question is from Acts and not exactly relevant to the question. But the implied answer is clear. If Jesus took on all sin, then everyone is free of sin.
Barth does not deserve a lot of space to work out all the fine details, but that is essentially his message. Therefore, when the LCMS-WELS-ELS-ELCA leaders were drawn to Fuller Seminary to study how to make their sects grow, their UOJ was supported and encouraged rather than criticized by the Pasadena Synagogue of Satan.
Of course, UOJ is the natural outcome of Calvinism. How warm and fuzzy the apostate Lutherans must have felt, to have their UOJ encouraged by the gurus of Fuller. Wayne Mueller said to the youth of WELS, "Mission work is easy. Just tell them they are already forgiven." That has worked wonders, hasn't it? No, it has not.
Need I say this? The Church Growthers have always been famous for their marital and Scriptural infidelities, so they model Barth in every way possible.
In the 1960s, Barth gave a series of lectures in the US. He stayed at the homes of faculty members. He took Charlotte with him - not his wife Nelly. His hosts were instructed to provide only one room, one bed for the professor and his assistant. As someone wrote - "It was common knowledge."
So, if you know a heart-broken Barthian who just learned what fraud Barth was, let him know that entire Protestant world winked at the couple and said, "We know. Everyone is forgiven, even before we are born."
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| Barth stopped publishing when Charlotte grew sick and died, but he finally dedicated a volume to his wife Nelly. |
