Returning to Tillich: Theology and Legacy in Transition

Published by De Gruyter 2018

Returning to Tillich

Theology and Legacy in Transition

Edited by: Russell Re Manning and Samuel Andrew Shearn

Volume 13 in the series Tillich Research

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110533606

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About this book

Fifty years after his death in 1965 the essays in this collection return to Paul Tillich to investigate his theology and its legacy, with a focus on contemporary British scholarship. Originating in a conference held in Oxford in 2014, the book contains 16 original contributions from a mixture of junior and more established scholars, most of whom have a connection to Britain.

The contributions are diverse, but four themes emerge throughout the volume. Several essays are concerning with a characterisation of Tillich's theology. In dialogue with recent emphases on the radical Tillich, some essays suggest a more conservative estimation of Tillich's theology, rooted in the Idealist and classical Christian platonic traditions, whilst in constant engagement with changing existential situations.

Secondly, and perhaps reflecting the context of religious diversity and theories of religious pluralism in Britain, many essays engage Tillich's approach to non-Christian religions. Thirdly, some essays address the importance of existentialist philosophy for Tillich, notably via an engagement with Sartre. Finally, a number of essays take up the diagnostic potential of Tillich's theology as a resource for engaging contemporary challenges.

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Russell Re Manning, Bath Spa University, Bath, UK and Samuel Shearn, University of Oxford, UK.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	IX
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XI
Foreword Werner G. Jeanrond Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XIII
Introduction: Returning to Tillich Russell Re Manning and Samuel Shearn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Which Kant? Whose Idealism? Paul Tillich’s Philosophical Training Reappraised Marc Boss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Chapter 2. Tillich and Participation Douglas Hedley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Chapter 3. Compromised Correlation? Experience in Paul Tillich’s Concept of Correlation Marijn de Jong and Ulrich Schmiedel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Chapter 4. Tillich’s Account of Love. Re-visiting Self-less Love Julia Meszaros Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Chapter 5. Kairos, History, and Religion. Some Insights on Tillich’s Understanding of Revelation in Dialogue with Karl Barth Sven Ensminger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Chapter 6. Answering Sartre. Paul Tillich and the ‘Socrates of Nothingness’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
Chapter 7. Is Green the Colour of our Redemption? Anne-Marie Reijnen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Chapter 8. Tillich for Today’s Church. Self-critique, Self-transcendence, and the New Reality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Chapter 9. The Sacred Art of Teaching. Paul Tillich on Place, Boundary, and Pedagogy Matthew Lon Weaver Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Chapter 10. Paul Tillich, Salvation, and Big, Unnecessary, Crazy, Travel Adventure Alexander T. Blondeau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Chapter 11. “One can distinguish two ways of approaching God: the way of overcoming estrangement and the way of meeting a stranger.” Paul Tillich’s Engagement with Buddhism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Chapter 12. Two Forms of Dialectic within Tillich’s History of Religion Robert E. Meditz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Chapter 13. Schleiermacher and Tillich on Judaism: A Structural Comparison Gorazd Andrejč Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Chapter 14. Paul Tillich, Being Itself, and the Structure of Vedantic Panentheism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Chapter 15. Paul Tillich and the ‘Dark Night of Faith’ as Mystical Experience Stefan S. Jaeger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Epilogue: A Dinner Speech Tillich in Transition Christoph Schwoebel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Contributors’ Details Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars and students of Theology, Religious Studies, Philosophy
Pages
- Front matter: 14
- Main content: 222
Keywords: Tillich; Theology; Philosophy of Religion

eBook

Published: December 4, 2017
ISBN: 9783110533606

Hardcover

Published: December 4, 2017
ISBN: 9783110532852