Kenneth Oakes

“He acknowledges Himself to be our God by creating and maintaining the distance by which we are separated from Him; he displays His mercy by inaugurating His krisis and bringing us under judgement. He guarantees our salvation by willing to be God and known as God—in Christ; He justifies us by justifying Himself” (41).”
― Kenneth Oakes, Reading Karl Barth: A Companion to Karl Barth's Epistle to the Romans

“In this time, however, the prisoner can become the watchman. The resurrection “seals us in,” seals us into our humanity, our suffering, and our condition as creatures and as creatures of God. Yet the resurrection also provides an “exit,” not from being creatures, but a hope of release from our present suffering in a world of sin and death. It is an exit, but it an exit that we must wait for; it is a matter of hope.”
― Kenneth Oakes, Reading Karl Barth: A Companion to Karl Barth's Epistle to the Romans