The ethics of Paul Tillich / Ronald H. Stone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stone, Ronald H., author.

Series:

Mercer Tillich studies

Mercer Tillich series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tillich, Paul, 1886-1965--Ethics.

Tillich, Paul.

Tillich, Paul, 1886-1965.

Christian ethics--History--20th century.

Christian ethics.

History.

Ethics, Modern--20th century.

Ethics, Modern.

Socialist ethics.

Socialism and Christianity.

Socialism and religion.

Church and social problems.

Social justice--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Social justice.

Ethics.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

228 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This first book-length study of Paul Tillich's ethics is drawn from research in the Harvard Archives and fifty years of teaching Tillich's social-political thought. In Ronald H. Stone's fourth work on Tillich's philosophy the ethic is examined from the early ontological to socialist ethics to his own final principled-situationalist ethic in late life. Unique to this study is the in-depth inquiry into Tillich's courageous social action correlated with his own philosophical-theological ethic. The book moves from an early socialist rally in Berlin, through the wars, dialogue with John Foster Dulles about post-war planning, debates about nuclear deterrence, to Buddhist Christian dialogue. The author's own preference for the late ethic of the philosopher informs the inquiries into the earlier radical Tillich. The conclusion provides a synthesis of the vast sources of Tillich's ethics and presents twelve themes summarizing sources and future resources for ethics from his life's work.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Ethics and Morals

2. Conversations in Religious Socialist Circles

3. Tillich and Niebuhr on the Jewish Question

4. Protestantism and Marxism

5. Resistance to the Third Reich

6. Critique of John F. Dulles' Commission on a Just and Durable Peace

7. Power in the Context of American Empire

8. Religious Socialist and Liberation Perspectives on Justice

9. Tillich's Kairos and its Trajectory

10. Tillich, Niebuhr, and Bennett on the Bomb

11. Ethics and the Encounter with Other Religions

12. Late Ethics: Critique and Projection.

Notes:

Includes bibliography (pages 217-221) and index.

ISBN:

0881468096

9780881468090

OCLC:

1258672441