God With Us: Divine Condescension and the Attributes of God by K. Scott Oliphint

Author:K. Scott Oliphint [Oliphint, K. Scott]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Good News Publishers
Published: 2011-09-11T04:00:00+00:00

The decision to assume flesh in time could only result in something being added to that already completed identity; an addition which has no effect upon what he is essentially. Being the Redeemer, in this view, tells us nothing about who or what the Logos is in and for himself. It is merely a role he plays, something he does; but what he does in time has no significance for his eternal being.34

Barth’s “solution” to this problem is what McCormack calls a “covenant ontology.” This is identical to what he elsewhere calls an “actualistic ontology.” It means that the act of God incarnating himself—which is relationality, not in the abstract but in the concrete—is of the essence of God himself.

So, says Barth:

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