Salvation is a dramatic event. What form of thought is appropriate for the relationship between God and Man: analogy, dialectics, or paradox?Paul Tillich and Walter Kasper may be regarded as the 20th century heirs to Schelling’s version of German Idealism. In response to the conundrums that emerge from the anthropological transition to postmodernism and from modern man’s position of alienation from God, Tillich and Kasper boldly attempted to conceptualize theology in terms of soteriology. Is there still a Christian message that speaks to the predicament of modern man and can “embrace” people today?