Karl Barth and the Incarnation: Christology and the Humility of God (Biblia.com)

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This work demonstrates the significance of Karl Barth’s Christology by examining it in the context of his orientation toward the classical tradition—an orientation that was both critical and sympathetic. To compare this Christology with the doctrine’s history, Sumner suggests first that the Chalcedonian portrait of the incarnation is conceptually vulnerable at a number of points. By recasting the...

Berkouwer’s worry rests upon what is perhaps the most basic theological decision underlying Barth’s project: that in Christ “who God is” immanently and “who God reveals Himself to be” in the economy are identical. In this respect, my intent is to work out the radicality of Barth’s doctrine of divine revelation—namely, that what we see in Jesus Christ can be taken as true of God’s own life and not set aside as “merely” human, creaturely, or economic, and therefore not true of who God is in Himself.

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