Sublime

Incarnating True Christianity

If one considers human beings in and of themselves, there is a sense, then, in which they never become a proper image of God at all no matter how well formed they may be according to the divine image.

Barth’s strategy was to find within biblical language itself a way to speak of God’s breaking into a modern world framed by immanence.

The virtue and wisdom produced through the proper operation of our faculties are properties we acquire and lose depending on the exercise of our free will. It is consequently not our nature to be virtuous or wise in the way it is our nature to be rational or alive.

no longer content with the genre Theology of the New Testament, might yet practice “theology with the New Testament.”

“The truth of the Gospel is the principle article of all Christian doctrine. . . . Most necessary is it that we know this article well, teach it to others, and beat it into their heads continually.”14

character of human lives as they are made over in him will be ultimately comprehensible according to a divine image that cannot itself be comprehended.

Denys Turner writes, “In showing God to exist reason shows that we no longer know what ‘exists’ means.”