contributions of several twentieth-century theologians, including Karl Barth, Emil Brunner and Rudolf Bultmann. More specifically, dialectical theology refers to Karl Barth’s focus on the qualitative difference between God and humans and the interplay (dialectic) between opposing or paradoxical ideas, such as time and eternity or finite and infinite. . The term used to refer to Martin Buber’s attempt to distinguish between two types of relationships: the I-Thou relationship