Gone

“The election of Jesus Christ is his own election through the mediacy of His community. His determination is be its witness, this is the purpose which God has for him, and in execution of which the meaning and order of his being consist. The gracious good-pleasure of God is not merely achieved in him but through him, and it is in this way that it is effectively achieved in him. he is its real object as he is it witness, and therefore its subject.”
CD II.2 page 414.

Where have Cabe and I gone? We are both still reading, although slightly off pace (the summer’s are never easy for those in youth ministry.) I would like to get back to writing and summarizing Barth again, as more and more when I preach and write I find myself living in conversation with him but is this blog dead? Should Cabe and I both blog about Barth on our personal blogs? Is anybody still out there?

As we have read through CD II.2 the thing that has struck me the most in Barth’s response to individualism and the role of the community of faith preceding individual conversion. I think I knew that Barth was not in favor of individualism but given at times his existential bent I wasn’t quite clear how he would he would move around that in his doctrine of election and I find myself surprised at how convincing this section is.

In this section both of us have struggled with the 5 pages a day method. At the beginning it seemed easier to break his thoughts into about 5 pages but now it seems he is working with larger themes that aren’t quite as focused into 5 page groups but at times spanning 20 or more pages to really clarify a thought. I enjoy reading more this way because I can spot that I trying to grab larger themes rather than minuscule thoughts, but it is frustrating our reading method.
Any suggestions?

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