This book examines the doctrines of election and atonement in Karl Barths Church Dogmatics, taking up Barths own challenge to his reader to surpass his argument and offer a better typological interpretation of the cultic texts. Barths radical re-working of Calvins doctrine of election is one of the most important developments in twentieth-century theology. Christ synthesizes for Barth a particular dialectic: the binary structure of Gods Yes of election and Gods No of rejection. The books central question--how can Jesus simultaneously be both the elected and the rejected (CD II/2), acting as...