I appreciate the balance we have between our textbooks. After reading an increasingly depressing account of the nature of culture and reality in Barker, we find at least a glimmer of hope that there might be substance and meaning that float somewhere out there in the ether in Cobb's writing.
I have heard Paul Tillich criticized by many who feel that Karl Barth's declaration of Christ and Christ alone is a much more pious route. However, I feel that we diminish God's sovereignty, power, and presence if we don't recognize His truth in every cultural circumstance. How can we say out of one side of our mouth that God is present by His spirit everywhere and anywhere and yet all world religions and "non-Christian" culture is devoid of truth and goodness? I feel that Tillich at least tried to develop a language of correspondence between the sacred and the secular. May we follow in his footsteps.
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