RELIGST 2HH3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Karl Barth

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2HH3
• Professor: Stephen Westerholm

Document Summary

All parts of the bible are important, but all parts are not equal to christians some are more central to christian faith: ecclesiastes is not as important as isaiah, or psalms. Most important to leaders of church (luther, calvin) Most important for 20th century theologians karl barth famous for commentary on romans. Rome was the center of the empire at the time. Given that there were different ideas about the gospel from others he set forth his understanding. Most other letters were written to churches founded by paul, did not need to go over basics because he had already gone over them when he was with them, he addressed specific issues. Paul had a mission to the gentiles rome center of gentile world, they needed to hear the gospel message from him who has the primary responsibility to set forth the gospel for gentiles. Some believed he was inferior to super apostles.