Alex Early April 9, 2021 Karl Barth: Giving the Holy Spirit to Us Alex Early April 9, 2021 “Barth says that “the Holy Spirit … is God himself, in as so far as he is able, in an inconceivably real way, without being less God, to be present to the creature, and in virtue of this presence, to vouchsafe life to the creature.” ” — Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics: The Doctrine of the Word (Edinburgh, UK: T&T Clark, 2010), 515.