association of God’s revelatory ‘work’ and God’s eternal being stands under an ontological reservation. That is to say: God’s immanent being and God’s revelatory activity must be cleanly distinguished, for God exists as a self-sufficient Subject before, beyond and unrelated to God’s self-presentation. Certainly, God is not other than the way that God appears in the event of revelation. The Christian need not worry about the reliability of the information communicated; as ‘God’s own Doppelgänger’ (KD