Karl Barth son, Marcus Barth, forgot the Footwashing as prelude and intertwined combo to the Lord’s Supper

 

---Marcus Barth was the author of a good work on Ephesians.

Source: Marcus Barth, “Ephesians,” I, in The Anchor Bible (Garden City, N.Y.:Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974).

---It is really a pity that the son of Karl Barth spent his whole life to analyze the Lord’s Supper and died (1st of July) in the same year as Gerhard Hasel (11th of August) but that in all his research and books he did not understand what the role of Footwashing is to the Lord Supper!

---The two are combo ceremonies intertwined and cannot be separated. Ask Seventh-day Adventists about it.

---Marcus analyzed The Lord’s Supper as having three basic meanings: Passover Meal, Covenant Meal, and Messianic Meal.

---Adventists can live with this but where is the meaning of the Footwashing as a symbol of the Incarnation of Christ? The Bending down from heaven of the Creator God to serve man washing their feet! Dramatic prelude to the Lord’s Supper!

---Catholics and Reformed Traditions and all Protestant churches missed this exciting prelude incorporated by Christ on purpose into the Lord’s Supper.

---The giving up of self the emptying of everything and the giving of the gift of service of His life for us, unpaid for, free to all, also washed Judas Iscariot!

---But nothing is said of this by Marcus Barth, the son of the famous Karl Barth.

Source: Paul Nimmo, “Markus Barth on the Lord’s Supper” University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, 2020 paul.nimmo@abdn.ac.uk Downloaded from https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/2164/15063/Nimmo_JRT_Markus_Barth_VOR.pdf;jsessionid=CD201165CAE04E104E96237754526576?sequence=1

 

---We have to conclude that Marcus Barth who had an interest in the Lord’s Supper did not fully understood that great topic.

---His analysis of the four or more meanings of the symbolism in this great event is fine.

---But he did not understand it fully because we do not find any words of him on the ceremony of the Footwashing.

---Footwashing is absolutely connected to the Lord Supper in John 13.

---From Marcus in 1970’s to 2020 with Nimmo’s article on the Lord’s Supper, Catholics and Protestants still did not wake up on a proper exegesis of John 13. Sleeping like Laodicea is a good description. Right?


Source for a proper Adventist discussion on the Lord's Supper.

https://documents.adventistarchives.org/SSQ/SS19531001-04.pdf


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