From an interview with Rupert Shortt in God’s Advocates:
What caught me and still catches me about Barth is that sense of exuberant bloody-mindedness, enlarged upon at huge length, the gusto, the verve of the theology, with all its outrageous misunderstandings of other people and its wonderfully sanctified egotism. Its a great performance, The Church Dogmatics, and Barth enjoys being Barth and in spreading himself like this, and in that enjoyment does convey, I think, uniquely among twentieth-century theologians, a sense of the exhilarating otherness of God.”
H/T: Peter Leithart
I have no idea what to make of this….