Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics is characterized as a whole and in its parts by a thoroughgoing christological determination where Jesus Christ is the one and only criterion for Christianity’s basic beliefs. The rethinking of the whole of Christian doctrine from a center in Christ earned Barth’s theology the reputation for not only being “christocentric” but for being “christomonist” – that is, for denying the reality of creation and its creatures. Barth, especially in his later work, explicitly denied the negative implications of “christomonism” by affirming creaturely reality.