notably in his claims about the nature of the virgin birth and the resurrection, he also displays a remarkable freedom from it whenever that freedom is necessitated by his allegiance to the Word of God mediated through Scripture. In order to clarify Barth’s position on tradition, it is necessary to say something about his doctrine of Scripture. Barth has been called every name in the book on this matter. Critics on the left accuse him of “biblicism” (whatever that means),