Barth on the incarnation
God shows Himself to be the great and true God in the fact that He can and will let His grace bear this cost, that He is capable and willing and ready for this condescension, this act of extravagance, this far journey. What marks out God above all false gods is that they are not capable and ready for this. In their otherworldliness and supernaturalness and otherness etc., the gods are a reflection of the human pride which will not unbend, which will not stoop to that which is beneath it. God is not proud. In his high majesty He is humble. It is in this high humility that He speaks and acts as the God who reconciles the world to Himself. Barth CD IV.1 §59 p159