1. Bruce L. McCormack, 'Grace and Being: The Role of God's Gracious Election in Karl Barth's Theological Ontology', in John Webster, ed.The Cambridge Companion to Karl Barth(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), p. 92. Emphasis in the original.
2. Paul D. Molnar,Divine Freedom and the Doctrine of the Immanent Trinity: In Dialogue with Karl Barth and Contemporary Theology(Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 2002), p. x.
3. Molnar,Divine Freedom, p. 15.
4. McCormack, 'Grace and Being', p. 97.
5. Let it be stipulated that all references to the triune hypostases are problematic and that 'identity' is here preferred on a somewhat arbitrary basis. I borrow the term from Robert W. Jenson,The Triune Identity: God according to the Gospel(Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1982) - but the fact that I am borrowing something from Jenson should not be taken as a clue that 'crypto-social-Trinitarianism' underlies the claims made in this article.