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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....

In order to explore more fully how God’s glory might accord with this account of human agency I turn to Karl Barth’s account of divine glory, beginning with Church Dogmatics (hereafter CD) II.1. Here, he returns glory to a leading concept among God’s perfections. Although he places it under the heading of the perfections of God’s freedom, he also associates it with the other major heading of God’s perfections, Love. In this way, Barth lets glory become (in
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