himself. But creation means something different; it means a reality distinct from God: ‘Creaturely reality means reality on the basis of a creatio ex nihilo, a creation out of nothing.’ Barth asserts that God transcends the limitations of our time and space—his time and space are different. However, that does not mean that ‘there is no time in him’. In this way Barth might avoid some of the problems associated with the traditional doctrine of God’s ‘timelessness’,12 though he wants to retain from