they did not properly recognize the hiddenness of God in his revelation. They sought to bring down the freedom of God into the given facts of history. Thus God was bound by his own revelation and no longer truly sovereign. Over against this Barth asserts that God is wholly hidden in his revelation to man in Christ. In the idea of Geschichte we recognize that in God’s revelation in Christ and in Scripture as the witness to Christ, the wholly free and sovereign God is speaking. A second weakness in
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