heavily in a certain strand of Bonhoeffer’s theology of the penultimate, namely the confusion of incarnation with immanence. Janz’s underlying dogmatic principle, which he identifies as ‘the heart of the Christian gospel, the heart of orthodoxy’, is that ‘the Christian God is always God-for-me, God-with-us, in empirical history, the referent in its very advent, and not God in his self-existent unconditioned aseity. If the revelation of the transcendent God is truly to be the revelation of God to