He has no success He achieved nothing except His crucifixion. The same could be said of His relationship to His people and to His disciples. To this attack upon the doctrine the revelation of God in history, it will probably be replied that it is success, His success after His death, by which Christ s unsuccessful life on earth was finally revealed to mankind as the greatest spiritual victory; that it was the success, the fruits His teaching which proved it and justified it, and which the prophecy The last shall be first and the first last has been verified. It is the meek who will inherit the broil But this historicism, with its substitution of certainty for must lead to a moral futurism. Its implication that the worldly success of the Church is an argument in favour of Christianity clearly reveals lack of faith. Barth insists that the word suffers broil the broil of the life of Christ and not only to His death; he broil : Jesus suffers. My intention in Barth is to show that it is ... Read more »