than confession of the power of human ideas or the power of human experience. Such starting points therefore would necessarily deny the, content of Christian confession at the outset. They would deny the fact that Jesus is the Son of God, independently of what we may think and independently of our experiences, beliefs or feelings. Ultimately what was at stake for Barth was the difference between genuine Christian insight and a kind of Feuerbachian reversal of divine and human predicates. In the last