ABSTRACT
Barth was about the business of conceptual description. Barth's criticism of what he takes to be Roman Catholic ethical method at least partially arises out of concerns which his task of conceptual location generates. Barth shows how the divine command coheres with the manifest everyday world in at least three ways. First, he explicitly addresses mistaken interpretations of the command which would, if they were correct, count against coherence. Second, Barth, anxious to deny claims about the opacity of revelation, places his description of the command as part of a history of a relationship with Christ in a comprehensible context. Third, Barth's discussion of vocation extends the logic of the divine command to include the "givens" of our life our age, our special situation, our personal aptitudes, and our specific "field of ordinary everyday activity". Barth's account of the spheres makes possible a description of God's activity which is liable in principle to extensive specification.
