Dr. Gordon H. Clark on Dr. Karl Barth’s View of Revelation

“The difference between the Evangelical position and Barth’s ‘Neo-orthodoxy’ and the key to what may seem a confusing dialogue between Barth and (the Lutheran) Hollaz is that orthodox Protestantism equates the Word of God as the Bible. For all Barth’s attempts to make it appear that the Bible is the Word of God, this equation does not hold in his thinking. Behind the proclamation and behind the Bible there is something else that is the Word of God, an event of revelation, and only in this event does the Bible become the Word of God, and only partially at that. To get to the bottom of Barth’s theory, therefore, is necessary to discover and define revelation.”

Gordon H. Clark
Karl Barth’s Theological Method — pg. 165

For Biblical Christians, the Bible is the Word of God. For Barth and his fanboys, the Bible becomes the word of God in a subjective existential encounter.  In Neo-orthodoxy (Barthianism) the Bible per se was only the fallible word of man, but it “contained the Word of God.”

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