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Important comment topic:

Which is the odd one out, and why?

May I add that Peter was a very gracious and thorough doctoral thesis examiner. However, I’m curious as to how a Tasmanian could ever grow to be so tall. I thought most of them were hobbits who ate apples all day long and played cricket without ever winning.

Contra Gordon, I think Wright and Barth are in the “Reformed Camp” although we don’t have to like all the camping gear that they bring with them. Read Barth’s “Evangelical Theology” and his book of collected prayers and you’ll see where Peter is coming from.

‘Barth was self-consciously standing in the Reformed Tradition, and he sought to write theology that was God-honouring, Christ-centred’. Are you saying that he was NOT attempting to stand in this tradition? Is the ‘orthodox’ in the ‘neo-orthodox’ not his attempt? It sounds like are saying that he didn’t get there (by your standards), but this is not the same as saying this is not where he saw himself standing, is it?

The ‘refusal to identify the Bible with the word of God’ is a common furphy and caricature—he is protecting the fact that God revealed himself in the Word of God (i.e. The Word became flesh)—a thing that evangelicals who are increasingly a-historical need to keep remembering. He ‘leaves the door open for universalism’, in the same way as John 3:16 does. He ‘hesitates to remind people of judgement’—not so, he reminds people, just like the gospel does, that the judgement of God has already been borne by the Son of God on their behalf, so why take it upon themselves? And ignoring the need to repent?—not so, but perhaps the concept is missed by some when he puts it far more positively (following Scripture’s lead) that God has now invited fallen humanity to live truly as human beings for the first time in the freedom that has been brought by Jesus Christ.

Peter