“Within the creation, God’s reality is so unobtrusive that it is possible to fail to see that a God even exists. God’s power is of an altogether different order than the power structures of this world. God conquers through suffering love.”

[Religion Online] [The Karl Barth Centennial: An Appreciative Critique]

“Barth reasserted “orthodoxy,” but with the proviso that God’s capacity to suffer was the proof of his true lordship. Thus Barth’s “neo-orthodoxy” stood in remarkable tension with 18 centuries of orthodoxy and, for that matter, with mainstream liberalism as well, for both, in their own ways, denied God’s suffering.”

“from all eternity God has determined upon man’s acquittal at his own cost” (Dogmatics II, 2, p. 167). Therefore, “there is no such thing as a created nature which has its purpose, being or continuance apart from Grace” (p. 92). Such a universalistic understanding of God’s suffering love constitutes a drastic reversal of the terrible inscrutable darkness of the secret will of the God of Luther and Calvin.”