reconciliation to the Son, redemption to the Spirit). Barth follows the manual dogmatics of the Roman Catholic theologian Bernhard Bartmann in affirming three rules for correct use of the doctrine of ‘appropriations’:1) ‘appropriations’ must not be arbitrary but must reflect the real distinctions in God which are posited with the differing ‘modes of origin’; 2) ‘appropriations’ must not be intended exclusively: they are not ‘personal’ properties of the mode of being to which they are assigned since