attributes can be predicated of Christ qua divine Son.42 How so? Because Barth’s actualistic construal of Christ’s ontological complexity enables a convincing affirmation of Christ’s personal simplicity, which in turn supplies a robust condition of possibility for linguistic cross-attribution. On the one hand, as McCormack suggests,43 Barth attends to the Lutheran concern for the indivise and inseperabiliter adverbs of the Chalcedonian Definition without compromising his Reformed commitments. One
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