William Willimon on Barth’s God:
For the young Barth, God is energy, motion, event, and crisis. To have faith is to be swept up in God’s movement, to say ‘yes’ to the dramatic, persistent, indomitable ‘yes’ that God speaks to us in Jesus Christ. All of our cheap human substitutes for God wilt before the wild reality of the truth of a God who is.
From The Early Preaching of Karl Barth: Fourteen Sermons with a Commentary by William H. Willimon.
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