This paper argues that in Jesus Christ ‘real humanity’ is revealed as a gift of the patient God, who gives time and space to creatures. While Karl Barth's work in Church Dogmatics §30.3 focuses on God's patience as a mode of his redeeming presence, §44.3 opens up towards, but leaves undeveloped, a providential mode of patience, in which God constitutes his people by choosing them and giving them all they require to hear his Word and respond in obedience. Recognising God's patience in these distinct modes allows biblical instances of divine–human dialogue to be heard in new and compelling ways. For example, it allows Genesis 18:16–33 to be understood as foregrounding Abraham's joyful responsibility to engage with God, making that event, in all its contingency, the description of who Abraham is as real man. In this way, a complete theological anthropology has at its heart God's own perfection of patience.

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“并肩的现实”：创世纪18：16-33中上帝的忍耐和亚伯拉罕的人性

本文认为，在耶稣基督里，“真实的人性”被揭示为耐心的上帝的礼物，上帝给了生物时间和空间。卡尔·巴特（Karl Barth）在《教会教义》§30.3中的工作着眼于上帝的忍耐作为其赎回存在的一种方式，而§44.3则开放给但没有发展的一种耐心的耐心模式，在这种模式下，上帝通过选择并给予所有人来构成他的子民他们需要听他的话并服从。认识到神在这些不同模式下的忍耐力，就可以以新颖而令人信服的方式聆听圣经中关于人与人对话的事例。例如，它使创世记18：16-33被理解为凸显了亚伯拉罕与上帝交往的快乐责任，从而使该事件在所有情况下都描述了亚伯拉罕是谁是真实的人。这样，