this form, the form which calls for its like, the law’s form.7 The unity of law and gospel was defined by Barth as a unity of content and form. The law is in the gospel “as the tablets from Sinai were in the ark”8; the gospel is always in the law as that which is manifest and proclaimed. Because of this the law can be called holy and good. The law is “the work of God which makes room for the gospel in our human sphere and room for us men in the sphere of the gospel.”9 The law, in Barth’s view, gives