it is very much a temporal event, but its temporal nature is of its own unique sort. Barth clearly perceives a distinction between different kinds of time. This distinction has an epistemological parallel that can perhaps illuminate Barth’s intentions to a greater degree. The human, or temporal, aspect of the incarnation is something that human beings can know by their simple perception. But the higher sphere, or the new and unique dimension, is not and cannot be known because it cannot be recognized