Grunewald’s Crucifixion from the Isenheim Altar.

This stood over Barth’s desk, where he wrote and worked. The Isenheim Altar is in Colmar, France.  This painting points to the central theme in Barth’s theology: the God who encounters us in Jesus Christ is ‘the One who loves us in freedom’ (CD II/1, 257).

Barth’s “dialectic” theology was always pressed by his idea of freedom, by the God of freedom, who is always for Barth the Love & Lover Himself.