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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