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Fully Alive: The Glory of God and the Human Creature in Karl Barth, Hans Urs von Balthasar and Theological Exegesis of Scripture is unavailable, but you can change that!

Numerous contemporary theologians depict divine glory as overwhelming to or competitive with human agency. In effect, this makes humanity a threat to God’s glory, and causes God’s glory to remain opaque to human enquiry and foreign to human life. Karl Barth and Hans Urs von Balthasar have avoided this tendency, instead depicting God’s glory as enabling people to participate in glorifying God....

God’s glory figures prominently in Barth’s account of the perfections of God. Inasmuch as God may be glossed as the One who loves in freedom, God’s glory is found in close relationship to each of those (mutually-defining) encompassing terms. As such, even though glory is delineated as one of God’s perfections (under the heading of a perfection of God’s freedom, correlated with God’s eternity), it also serves as an overarching description of the manner in which all of God’s perfections hold together
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