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God’s Time for Us: Barth’s Reconciliation of Eternity and Time in Jesus Christ is unavailable, but you can change that!

What is the relationship between eternity and time? God inhabits eternity, but he has entered time to be with his creatures. How does he bring these two together? According to James J. Cassidy, Karl Barth provides a thoroughly non-speculative approach to this question of how eternity and time relate. Contrary to abstract and philosophical approaches to the question, at the heart of Barth’s...

the eternity of being itself” (CD II/1, 611). This means that the apophatic way of describing God’s eternity as the negation of what we can say about time must be abandoned, and Boethius’ definition overturned: “The theological concept of eternity must be free from the Babylonian captivity of an abstract opposite to the concept of time” (CD II/1, 611). Barth’s rejection of defining the eternality of God is essential for understanding how he relates eternity to time. As Pokrifka observes: “Barth’s
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