Stanley Hauerwas ordered his favorite works by Karl Barth as CD 4.1 and 4.2, then Dogmatics in Outline, and after that The Humanity of God. This short book (96 pages) contains three sermons: Evangelical Theology in the 19th Century, The Humanity of God, and The Gift if Freedom: Foundation of Evangelical Ethics. Throughout Barth’s life he is responding to a particular theological method. Some theologians look at Man and say, in essence, “Man is this particular sort of thing and since Man is made in God’s image then God must be this particular sort of God.” The problem, as Barth sees it, is that such a method makes Man determinative of God rather than God determinative of Man. Man becomes the measure of all things. In other words, this method is a recipe for making God in our own image. One might even say that they often spoke of Man’s experience of God more than God’s self and so resulted in merely speaking about Man in a loud voice. So Barth responded by beginning all things with God’s Self. He talked about the “infinite qualitative distinction” between us and God. God is God and we are not. He was criticized, however, for not saying enough about Man. When he writes “The Humanity of God” he does not repent. He upholds everything he has said. He believes that what he said was exactly what needed to be said in the historic moment. But in “The Humanity of God” he thinks that perhaps it is time to say something about Man. This, of course, is only possible precisely because he has taken the first step in speaking rightly about God. His conclusion, then, in this sermon is that for the Christian “God” means He who freely chose that He would not be God without us. He is the God who is God for us, God with us. He is Immanuel. If we mean anything other than that then what we mean is not the God of Christianity. And we may only understand Man as the creation of this God and as the one addressed by this God. So it is that we may speak of Man only by speaking of Christ and the humanity of God.