"The light shines in the darkness and the darkness comprehendeth it not." (John1,5)
While it would be untrue to say I read Barth and comprehendeth him not, often enough, he does take some comprehending!
"[God] gifted to the cosmos His only Son and therefore nothing more or less than Himself. He surrendered Him, He gave him up, He offered him. He sends him into the cosmos, which is actually darkness, as the light which is to shine in the darkness but which cannot be apprehended, or grasped by the darkness. In giving Him — and in giving Himself — he exposes Him — and Himself — to the greatest danger. He sets at stake His own existence as God…In this act God loved the world so much, so profoundly, that it did in fact consist in the venture of His own self-offering, in this hazarding of His own existence as God." (CD IV. 1. p. 71-2)
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