Church dogma. Volume 3: Karl Bart

The third volume includes three paragraphs from the vast “church dogma” of Karl Bart. The first two (§§ 65 and 70/1) are devoted to the teachings of sin. Bart considers sin as a person’s movement in a direction opposite to the movement of the mercy of God. If God humbles himself in the embodiment and death of the Son, sharing his fate with man and giving him eternal life, then a person in his sin is arrogantly extolled, rejecting the humanity of God and being far from him in inertness and lies. The last section of this volume (§ 72) – ecclesiological – is devoted to the testimony of the community, its missions in the world and for the world. The church, according to Bart, ceases to be a church if it lives only for itself. By its being, it is designed to testify to the miracle of the existence of the humble God, of the greatness of man and the truth of the meeting of God and man in Jesus Christ.

Author
Bart Karl
Editor
Wojetsel Cyril
Translator
Tikhomirov Anton, Baranovsky Maxim, Khmelevskaya Olga
Publisher
BBI, 2014
Series
Modern theology