RE: Barth’s a heretic in that he denies the divinity of Jesus
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According to this site:
http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/bets/vol01/christology-barth_kantzer.pdf
[Page 26]
The true divinity of Christ is affirmed again and again by Barth. Jesus is “very God of very God,” he argues. He was possessed even in his earthly life, even as a baby of Bethlehem, even in his death on the cross, of all the divine attributes. Never at any moment did the person of Christ cease to be God or limit in any way the fullness of his deity.
A position of convenience that let him stay within the church catholic.
I don’t have Dr. Scaer’s “Christology” with me at work but, as Barth derives and divides the humanity and divinity of Christ, his logical conclusion is to deny Jesus his God-position (Atahansian Creed).
Just because he never continues to the logical conclusion of his “philosophy” doesn’t mean he does not teach/deny Christ’s divinity (theology/sin of omission).
(Ping to Chaz who is probably sitting in his office with the Confessional Lutheran Dogmatics series at his fingertips.)