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conversion to Roman Catholicism.^15 Owen declares that “whatever there may be in the height of this ‘contemplative prayer,’ as i ...

Clearly Owen was not opposed to all types of contemplative prayer, only those that ignored the mind and the other faculties of t ...

relationship with the Trinity. Karl Barth (1886-1968), arguably the most prominent theologian of the twentieth-century, is best ...

unio mystica Exploring Barth’s understanding of spiritual marriage reveals his complexity and according to George Hunsinger he w ...

rather Barth asserts that union with Christ is “what makes us Christians whatever our development or experience.”^30 Returning t ...

Christians.^36 Additionally, he recognizes the Old Testament bridal language that “Yahweh is always the Lover, Bridegroom and Hu ...

there is obviously no compelling reason to do so.”^41 Strangely Barth affirms that it is only John and Paul who provide a biblic ...

participation in and further expansion of the war. In a letter to Herrmann, Barth reveals his shaken conviction that “we learned ...

humanity the determinant for experience and truth.^52 However, Barth questions, “[c]an we say with final human certainty that th ...

increasingly self-focused.^58 By the time of the nineteenth-century Barth contends that, “[e]ven Reformation praise of God disap ...

Similarly he affirms the “Sabbath mysticism of Calvin.”^62 In his development of experience of the Word of God, Barth declares t ...

“negative comprehensibility.”^72 Additionally, Barth finds great disagreement with the “pious egocentricity” of the “quietistic ...

only himself in contemplation.^80 It is a pity that Barth, who was aware and appreciative of Hans Urs von Balthasar’s work on Ch ...

subsumed into this section.^87 This overarching emphasis upon activity provides little freedom to contemplate the mighty acts of ...

ethics than the spiritual life. While obviously petition is not the only form of prayer it is the overarching means since no one ...

Language of Delight and Enjoyment Reflective of his time Barth read the Song of Songs in a purely literal manner. In fact, he ba ...

reject them, but it is entirely another thing to simply not be conversant with them. A review of the index to the Church Dogmati ...

experiences”^101 and continues his judgment that “[o]ne suspects that Barth’s theology would perhaps have been enriched if he ha ...

contemplation and action he tends to depict them in stark contrast to each other.^106 Similarly, following Barth he delineates p ...

unio mystica Unlike Barth who frequently qualifies and cautions against using the terminology of unio mystica Bavinck approaches ...