This volume provides a much-needed English translation of the sixth edition of what is considered …
The especial abilities of each individual are not destroyed but realized when he is related to his true purport, which is impossibility. The personality of each man is not destroyed but established by the deep disturbance of this "Not yet" and this "No further". The universal challenge of faith is the creative word which calls men into existence out of the chaos of independent personality.
— The Epistle to the Romans by Karl Barth (Page 114)