ABSTRACT
Revelation occurs for faith, not for unbelief. Barth describes faith in a number of different ways, but in keeping with his emphasis that God can only be known out of God, the first thing to note is his declaration that faith is a gift of God, and not a work of man. To be conformed to Christ means to be like Christ, means to obey God as Christ did. Faith, the gift of the spirit, enables people to understand Jesus as God. This chapter presents a revelational account of theological knowing. The revelation of Jesus and the gift of faith are crucial to any account of revelation. Revelation is itself a happening, an event-in-progress. The reason why Barth is so adamant that revelation is an event-in-progress and not a static piece of history is due to his absolute commitment to the epistemological priority of God.
