After I wrote my last post , I was reminded of another solution to the problem of making gods in our own image, one put forward by Bruce McCormack, professor of Systematic Theology at Princeton. McCormack focuses on an age old debate over the theology of Karl Barth. Barth wrote, in part, to refute “consciousness” theologians who, according to Barth, had been making god in their own image. In contrast, Barth's theology sought to assert the transcendence of God. The question many have asked since is: did he succeed? McCormack, in a novel interpretation of Barth, seems to think that Barth has thrown the image making upstairs – instead of man making god in his own image, God makes himself in man's image. McCormack suggests that God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit could only be that way in relation to his creation. Therefore God must have determined his own nature in correlation to his creation - he determined his own triune nature, chose it. God could have be...