Retrieving the radical Tillich : his legacy and contemporary importance / edited by Russell Re Manning.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Re Manning, Russell, editor.

Series:

Radical theologies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tillich, Paul, 1886-1965--Influence.

Tillich, Paul.

Tillich, Paul, 1886-1965.

Death of God theology.

Theology, Doctrinal--History--20th century.

Theology, Doctrinal.

History.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 274 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, [2015]

Summary:

"Paul Tillich (1886-1965) is best known today as a theologian of mediation. Fifty years after his death in 1965, for many Tillich has become an out-of-date thinker, a safe exemplar of a mid-twentieth-century theological liberalism. By contrast, from post-liberalism and Radical Orthodoxy to radical secular theologies, the current theological landscape is dominated by the notion of radicality. This collection shows forth Tillich as a radical theologian, strongly marked, but never fully determined by, the urgent critical demands of his time. From the crisis of a German cultural and religious life in ruins after the horrific defeat of the First World War, to the new realities of religious pluralism, Tillich's theological responses were always profoundly ambivalent, impure and disruptive, and never merely safely correlative. Far from the dominant image of Tillich as a liberal accommodationist in its place re-emerges the troubled and troubling figure of the radical Tillich"-- Provided by publisher.

"This collection of essays stages the first sustained conversation between the great protestant theologian and philosopher Paul Tillich (1886-1965) and radical theology. The book explores Tillich's influence on mid-twentieth-century 'Death of God' theology, reassesses the radical character of Tillich's own theology, and argues for his ongoing significance for contemporary work in radical theology"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: The Real Tillich is the Radical Tillich / Russell Re Manning

Part I. Tillich's Radical Legacy: 1. A Homage to Paulus / Thomas J.J. Altizer; 2. Paul Tillich and the Death of God: Breaking the Confines of Heaven and Rethinking the Courage to Be / Daniel J. Peterson; 3. God Is a Symbol for God: Paul Tillich and the Contours of Any Possible Radical Theology / Richard Grigg; 4. The Nemesis Hex: Mary Daly and the Pirated Proto-Patriarchal Paulus / Christopher Craig Brittain; 6. Peacemaking on the Boundary / Matthew Lon Weaver

Part II. Tillich and Contemporary Radical Theologies: 7. The Irrelevance and Relevance of the Radical, Impure Tillich / Mike Grimshaw; 8. Socialism's Multitude: Tillich's The Socialist Decision and Resisting the US Imperial / Mark Lewis Taylor; 9. Changing Ontotheology: Paul Tillich, Catherine Malabou, and the Plastic God / Jeffrey W. Robbins; 10. Can there be a Theology of Disenchantment? Speculative Realism, Correlations, and Unbinding the Nihil in Tillich / Thomas A. James; 11. Depth and the Void: Tillich and Žižek via Schelling / Clayton Crockett; 12. The Critical Project in Schelling, Tillich, and Goodchild / Daniel Whistler; 13. Radical Apologetics: Paul Tillich and Radical Philosophical Atheism / Russell Re Manning.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137380838

1137380837

OCLC:

898911111

Publisher Number:

40025042091

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