Week 3 - Cobb Chapter 3

Cobb wrote extensively in this chapter about Tertullian, Augustine and Paul Tillich. I found it interesting to see the congruencies between these 3 men surrounding the topic of how the Church engages culture. I agree with them that we are very distracted from the things of God by forces in out culture. But how far should we worry about this and retract? Cobb quotes Tertullian saying that we are defiled by our culture when we engage it on its terms. I am not sure what this means but is it even possible not to engage the culture on its terms? Unless one goes into monasticism I don't see any other way than to be defiled by culture, in Tertullian's terms. I think its easy to demonize the culture as anything that is outside what is called "Church." But is this really helpful?