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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....

glory of God as both one of the perfections of God as well as, in some ways, summing up all of the perfections of God. Thus, in Barth’s account God’s glory is seen as related to both the love and freedom of God as the One who loves in freedom. Similarly, Barth developed his description of the glory of God through recourse to two biblical images, light and honour, so that the glory of God is the shining forth (light) of the One who God is (honour). I have also explored Barth’s construction of the
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