 Revelation as Dialectical Presence. This model intends to capture the thought of Karl Barth—who is one of the most influential figures of revelation-theology in the twentieth century—and his followers in the school of “dialectical theology”. For Barth, revelation is a “non-objectifiable” encounter with God himself in Christ, an event that is mediated by the Bible and the church’s proclamation about Christ. The Bible itself, however, is not revelation but merely the channel through which revelation “flows” whenever God wills this to happen. Moreover, since God is “Wholly Other” and as such unknowable for humans, revelation must be described in terms of a paradoxical dialectic of simultaneous “unveiling” and “veiling”. “Revelation”, says Barth, “means the self-unveiling, imparted to men, of the God who by nature cannot be unveiled to men” (Barth 1975: 320; see also Hart 2000). It is unclear whether this model manages to present a coherent account of divine revelation (for a sympathetic discussion, see McCormack 2008: 28–35). The intention behind the model, however, is to reconcile the claim that revelation provides real, objective knowledge of God with the claim that God radically transcends all human categories and all created media of revelation.