Week 4 - Cobb, Ch.4 (Theological Tools)

Paul Tillich's "Ultimate Concern" is that something in life that orders all other things - if it is not God, it is idolatry. When we experience "The Holy" (something transcendent that inspires "a dread that fascinates us") we have found our Ultimate Concern. Ontological faith is when we are in the presence of something mysterious and powerful. Moral faith is when we are terrified by how good that something is. Symbols represent "The Holy" but are not holy in and of themselves. Symbols, myths and liminality are listed as other tools to use in studying cultures.