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An utterly astonishing passage on the grace-in-holiness and holiness-in-grace of God.

A riveting, even thrilling, section on the Divine Perfections — how often does one say that?!

Man, this stuff will preach

I think I grasped about 30% of what Barth is arguing here, but it was a fantastic 30%.

Natural theology? Repudiated. Nazi Christianity? Destroyed. Page count? Demolished.

Finished with Book I

“Jesus Christ is the knowability of God on our side, as He is the grace of God itself, and therefore also the knowability of God on God’s side.”

Fascinating intertext with Barth

“Faith consists precisely in this—in the life which is lived in consequence of God’s coming down to our level.”

“Redemption does not mean that the world and we ourselves within it evolve in this or that direction. It means that Jesus Christ has come again. [It] means the resurrection of the flesh. It means eternal life as deliverance from eternal death.”

Only Barth gives you 20 exhausting pages on, say, epistemology, and then suddenly turns the corner into absolutely riveting passages that make the foregoing all worth it.