Reviews for God Here and Now

The average rating for God Here and Now based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-06-30 00:00:00 Michael Reardon This book provided a sort of mental landslide at an important time in my life. Barth is radical because he's so conservative and so aggressively so. An intellectual with a ruthless intelligence and a grinding thoroughness. He made me realize that Christianity makes sense only when viewed from the perspective of Christianity and without such a perspective it makes no sense. The swing that occurred with me philosophically against a wishy-washy universalism (prevalent in my thinking about religion from high school to the sophomore year of college) was grounded in the reading of this book. Barth is hard. On a lot of levels. To just get through and read and semi-comprehend. And to swallow as a theory once you DO understand it. But he made me realize that for my Christianity to mean anything it must first be Christian and thus must first deal with Christ and from there proceed. Any other attempt at Christianity would be doomed to failure. These last two sentences mark a radical shift in my understanding of what my religion is, says, and means to me.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-09-08 00:00:00 Edward Harmon While I can't get on board with his specifically Reformed elements of his philosophy, I adore Barth for just about everything else. This book characterizes what I also admire most about Barth as a theologian: he's a 20th century Christian intellectual/academic and *gasp* he actually takes the Bible/faith seriously! Who knew Christian intellectuals still did that?! *glares at Caputo*