In response to Brunner’s essay, Barth issues back a resounding “Nein!” Barth is wary of Brunner’s position, although he finds it to be close to his own in some ways. His concern is that natural theology leads to a disintegration of the Church’s allegiance to Christ. In the front of Barth’s mind were the horrors of the so-called “German Christian” movement, which was claiming that God’s will was made known in “blood and soil.” Barth’s proposal is to rethink completely that problem of natural theology by developing the meaning of revelation according to the key Reformation insights of solus Christus (Christ alone), sola gratia (grace alone), and sola fide (faith alone). Barth concludes that nature and grace do not merely exist on the same plane, nor do they differ only by a matter of degree. Nothing short of a miracle is needed to repair fallen humanity to their unfallen condition. Only the miracle of Christ’s resurrection made present and real to us here and now by the power of the Holy Spirit and the testimony of Scripture can accomplish such a feat.

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