starting point is not to be found behind the texts of the NT but in them—in the confession of the primitive church. Where significant expansion is concerned, the most significant point to be mentioned has to do with Barth’s treatment of triunity in God. There is in God, Barth now says, not ‘three personalities’ but ‘one divine I, individual or subject, one personality of God …’ (GA 14:208). The modern substitution of the self-conscious subject for the Boethian definition of a ‘person’ as ‘an individual