Karl Barth, theologian and scholar fittingly wrote a latter chapter of Dogmatics in Outline on the “Coming of Jesus Christ the Judge.” Karl Barth’s beliefs of Christ’s coming as judge are futuristic. He however, recognized the already but not yet of eschatology. Problems addressed in the book are the Christians view of time, which he styles as “real time” versus God’s time. Dogmatics in Outline Defined Pre-Parousia Time In Karl Barth’s theology summary of present time, he saw Christ sitting at the right hand of God. This for him represented the present.  As such, the event occurred in real time. From this he concluded and rightly so that eternity had broken into ...

In our first study, we examined Romans 8:19, in the context of of the creation. The primary focus of the study is Paul's employ of the terms apokaradokia and apekdechomai. In this study, the focus moves more specifically to the subject of the end. There can be no doubt that the resurrection and the revealing of the sons of God are intertwined. "Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body." (Romans 8:23) When I first began studying Romans 8 and eschatology, I experienced a great deal of anxiety in ...