Re: 1Cor 1:28 TA MH ONTA

From: Jim West (jwest@highland.net)
Date: Sat Jan 24 1998 - 21:56:12 EST


At 10:05 AM 1/25/98 +0800, you wrote:
> 1 Corinthians 1:28: "TA MH ONTA."
>
> Is there any precedent for this phrase that I should
> be aware of? What exactly are these "things that are not"
> Cheers
> S.

Take a look at Karl Barth's Kirchliche Dogmatik, index, s.v. "das Nichtige",
also see "The Christian Life" index, s.v., "nothingness"- a truly brilliant
discussion on the concept of nothingness as the real significance of evil.
Typical Barth, incredibly insightful- and astonishingly wondrous to read.
One might even say, beware of his bewitching power lest you be pulled into
the mighty vortex of his unrelenting mental skill.

Jim

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Jim West, ThD
Adjunct Professor of Bible
Quartz Hill School of Theology

jwest@highland.net



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