Returning to Tillich : theology and legacy in transition / edited by Russell Re Manning and Samuel Shearn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Re Manning, Russell, editor.

Shearn, Samuel, editor.

Series:

Tillich research ; . 13.

Tillich research, 2192-1938 ; volume 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theology.

Tillich, Paul, 1886-1965.

Tillich, Paul.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Foreword / Jeanrond, Werner G.

Introduction: Returning to Tillich / Manning, Russell Re / Shearn, Samuel

Chapter 1. Which Kant? Whose Idealism? Paul Tillich's Philosophical Training Reappraised / Boss, Marc

Chapter 2. Tillich and Participation / Hedley, Douglas

Chapter 3. Compromised Correlation? Experience in Paul Tillich's Concept of Correlation / Jong, Marijn de / Schmiedel, Ulrich

Chapter 4. Tillich's Account of Love. Re-visiting Self-less Love / Meszaros, Julia

Chapter 5. Kairos, History, and Religion. Some Insights on Tillich's Understanding of Revelation in Dialogue with Karl Barth / Ensminger, Sven

Chapter 6. Answering Sartre. Paul Tillich and the 'Socrates of Nothingness'

Chapter 7. Is Green the Colour of our Redemption? / Reijnen, Anne-Marie

Chapter 8. Tillich for Today's Church. Self-critique, Self-transcendence, and the New Reality

Chapter 9. The Sacred Art of Teaching. Paul Tillich on Place, Boundary, and Pedagogy / Lon Weaver, Matthew

Chapter 10. Paul Tillich, Salvation, and Big, Unnecessary, Crazy, Travel Adventure / Blondeau, Alexander T.

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

Chapter 12. Two Forms of Dialectic within Tillich's History of Religion / Meditz, Robert E.

Chapter 13. Schleiermacher and Tillich on Judaism: A Structural Comparison / Andrejč, Gorazd

Chapter 14. Paul Tillich, Being Itself, and the Structure of Vedantic Panentheism

Chapter 15. Paul Tillich and the 'Dark Night of Faith' as Mystical Experience / Jaeger, Stefan S.

Epilogue: A Dinner Speech Tillich in Transition / Schwoebel, Christoph

Contributors' Details

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 20, 2017).

ISBN:

9783110532869

3110532867

OCLC:

1015880658