If now Barth wishes to speak of Jesus Christ (and not an abstractly conceived Logos asarkos) as the Subject of election, he must deny to the Logos a mode or state of being above and prior to the decision to be incarnate in time. He must, to employ the traditional terminology, say that there is no Logos in and for himself in distinction from God’s act of turning toward the world and humanity in predestination; the Logos is incarnandus in and for himself, in eternity. For that move alone would make