ABSTRACT
Karl Barth's theology appears resistant, enigmatically so given his intention to provide space for creaturely becoming and avoid christomonism, to an incorporation of the differentiated voices of particular concrete human beings. To entertain any thought of ultimate condemnation for anyone, while time continues, is to forget the hope that springs from Christ's victory. The threat of damnation may finally be withdrawn, and if it is then this will be due not to any logical necessity, but rather to God's free and gracious gift of Christ. The Barthian form of the theo-drama can too often unwittingly sound blind to the difficulties of a harmonious resolution that tragic drama creates for thought. Barth delivers only a tacit nod in its direction, and that directly after his warnings of the real possibility of ultimate damnation. Barth's eschatology logically requires both this nescience and the entertaining of the possibility of damnation.
