What seemed good has turned out to be enormously ambiguous in its fruit. 2. The political promise of the Enlightenment has failed to bring peace and has led to powerful tyranny sustained by ideology. 3. “Salvation history has collapsed.” Gilkey observes that with Western culture as the carrier of good in its struggle with evil, “a good case can be made that the spiritual substance of the Enlightenment took its shape against the Hebrew and the Christian myths or salvation history.”22 Said another