Irregular Theology

The upshot of all of this is that theological ethics should not in any way try to say directly what God’s command is. It should not make appeal to the truths supposed to lie in nature as creation of God, nor appeal to this, that, or the other text in the Bible. Such ethics has to serve the Word of God, even as theology should. It must not anticipate that Word, nor may it obstruct that Word by setting up a human law. The particular thing incumbent on such ethics is to take the Word of God as being *God’s Word*, and to point out the way whereby the relative necessities of our existence as creatures can *become* the Word of God’s revelation to us. This duty must be discharged by ethics in the light of what scripture proclaims. But it is not called upon to determine to what extent they *are his*, for this is solely the business of God’s Word.

— Karl Barth, The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life, p. 9-10. (via hargaden)

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