Today, in our modernized world, what seems implausible is that there is a God who is objective to us, who stands outside of us, who is the measure of truth, and who holds us accountable. We simply do not experience this in the course of life, and our experience inclines us to think that it is probably not true. Many years ago the Swiss theologian Emil Brunner made the argument in Christianity and Civilization that we are living at a unique moment in the West. Never before, he said, has a major civilization