Richard Burnett

Richard E. Burnett is Executive Director of Theology Matters and E.J. Rice Professor of Reformed Theology at the Institute for Theological Education. He holds a PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary and is the author of Karl Barth's Theological Exegesis (Eerdmans).

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2016

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Dec 2024

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Confessing the Faith · 2016 Summer EditionJesus Christ is the Truth – Part 2

Part two of Burnett's keynote on Barmen Article 1: Jesus Christ as the one Word of God we have to hear. The talk takes seriously the 'events and powers, figures…

July 8, 2020

20181 essay

Confessing the Faith · 2018 Winter EditionCalvin and Barth on the Unity of the Church

Calvin once wrote that he would gladly cross ten seas if it would help mend the church's torn body. Burnett puts that ferocity in conversation with Karl Barth, and asks…

March 19, 2018

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Confessing the Faith · 2017 Spring EditionWho Needs Confessions of Faith?

Why do Protestants have confessions of faith? Burnett's answer is short: not because we want to say more than the Bible says, but because we don't want to say less.…

May 24, 2017

20161 essay

Confessing the Faith · 2016 Summer EditionDoes Theology Still Matter?

After two decades of asserting that theology matters, Burnett asks the harder question: has it actually mattered? He surveys the major debates in the PCUSA over sexuality, the sanctity of…

June 17, 2016

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