R. H. CHARLES, A Critical History of
the Doctrine of a Future Life in Israel, in Judaism, and in Christianity, 1899 (rev. ed.
Barth's
doctrine of the threefold Word implied simultaneously the indissoluble unity
of the Word with the texts, tradition and present
life of the church, along with the necessity
of always distinguishing between the Word and the text, the text and the community, and the present creeds and
future possibilities.