Still Reading Barth:
This Will Be a Protraction

I think I am reading Barth in the Barthian way-- 'considering well'-- with some thought to the How of the What of his dogmatic in the Schleiermacherian Hermeneutik. I personally find this most tedious. Barth again and again makes the same points, in an 'existentialism' whose premise is extremely redundant and then again discursive writing-- with a highly tendentious point said to be certainly 'from God.'

Accordingly, there will be a hiatus in this Web-log: it will take months and even years to get to the end of this 'tunnel' whose end now looks progressively more minute, tiny, insignificant. Barth the pontiff is showing more than Barth the prophet. This matters greatly as a growing and unshakable pre-conclusion to this 'Kritik.'

All the while, I am reading the Church Fathers, the papyri, philosophy of all eras. I shall try harder to master Coptic, Aramaic, Hebrew, and polish-off my Greek and Latin. Of growing attraction is the theological work of William of Ockham, who facing trial on heresy against the Avignon Pope has compelling things to say about the meaning of orthodoxy/catholicism/Christianity (see "Dialogus" at this link.)

Thus, "I have my work cut out for me." The reader should check-into this site from time to time to see what my progress is. It is looking like a drawn out affair.

--Vernon Lynn Stephens, Culdee
Time of Compline
Labor Day (USA)
Day of St. Giles (Western Church)
Beginning of the Indiction (Orthodoxy)