In the years following World War II, American Protestantism experienced tremendous growth, but conventional wisdom holds that midcentury Protestants practiced an optimistic, progressive, complacent, ...and materialist faith. InOriginal Sin and Everyday Protestants, historian Andrew Finstuen argues against this prevailing view, showing that theological issues in general--and the ancient Christian doctrine of original sin in particular--became newly important to both the culture at large and to a generation of American Protestants during a postwar "age of anxiety" as the Cold War took root.Finstuen focuses on three giants of Protestant thought--Billy Graham, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Paul Tillich--men who were among the era's best known public figures. He argues that each thinker's strong commitment to the doctrine of original sin was a powerful element of the broad public influence that they enjoyed. Drawing on extensive correspondence from everyday Protestants, the book captures the voices of the people in the pews, revealing that the ordinary, rank-and-file Protestants were indeed thinking about Christian doctrine and especially about "good" and "evil" in human nature. Finstuen concludes that the theological concerns of ordinary American Christians were generally more complicated and serious than is commonly assumed, correcting the view that postwar American culture was becoming more and more secular from the late 1940s through the 1950s.
Paul Tillich (1886-1965) war ein Denker von internationaler Ausstrahlung und weltweitem Rang. Von seinen Schriften gehen wichtige Impulse für die theologischen, religionsphilosophischen und ...kulturtheoretischen Debatten aus. Die Reihe Tillich Research reflektiert die internationale Forschung zu diesem namhaften Theologen und Philosophen, die wissenschaftliche Erschließung seines Werks mit jeweils ganz unterschiedlichen Zugängen zu Rezeption und Interpretation sowie einer facettenreichen Auswahl und Gewichtung der Themen.
Returning to Tillich Re Manning, Russell; Shearn, Samuel Andrew
2017, 2017-12-04, Letnik:
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Paul Tillich (1886-1965) was a thinker of international charisma and worldwide repute. His works provide important impulses for debates on theology, philosophy of religion and cultural theory. The ...series Tillich Research reflects on international research on this notable theologian and philosopher, the academic exploitation of his works with its range of different approaches to its reception and interpretation, as well as a diverse selection of themes and emphasis on them.
Tillich’s Theodicies Shearn, Samuel Andrew
Modern theology,
January 2023, 2023-01-00, 20230101, Letnik:
39, Številka:
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This essay explores the development of Tillich’s writings on the relationship between divine providence and suffering, and his approach to theodicy. First, I attend to the various stations of his ...early life and his earliest writings in various genres. Here we see the instrumental‐pedagogical theodicies of his student days and earliest preaching give way to an increased emphasis on the suffering of God. However, unlike many twentieth century theologies of suffering, Tillich retains a strong teleological notion of divine providence, even in the face of the horrors of the First World War. Second, I analyse Tillich’s American systematics and sermons against the background of his early writings, characterising his writings as a Hegelian approach to suffering, subsuming the individual under the teleology of divine creativity.
This essay returns to a largely forgotten achievement of mid-twentieth-century philosophical theology, Richard Kroner’s Culture and Faith (1951) and the “philosophy of faith” presented therein. It ...focuses on Kroner’s idea of religious imagination as the inspired medium of revelation. It considers implications of this idea with regard to religious epistemology and theological language. In doing so, it puts Kroner in conversation with John Caputo, Iain McGilchrist, and Kroner’s friend and colleague Paul Tillich.
Brokenness and Reconciliation Christian Danz, Marc Dumas, Werner Schüßler, Bryan Wagoner / Christian Danz, Marc Dumas, Werner Schüßler, Bryan Wagoner
2020, 2020-09-07, Letnik:
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Das International Yearbook for Tillich Research bietet eine Plattform für die unterschiedlichen Arten der Interpretation und Rezeption des Werkes von Paul Tillich, wobei vor allem die internationale ...Tillich-Forschung durch gegenseitigen Austausch befördert werden soll. Jeder Band des Jahrbuches ist einem Schwerpunktthema gewidmet. Daneben finden auch andere Beiträge Aufnahme – neben Berichten über Tillich-Tagungen, Rezensionen wichtiger Publikationen zu Tillich und einer Bibliographie, die über die aktuelle Tillich-Literatur informiert. Die Bände 6 (2011) bis 13 (2018) sind online hier auf der De Gruyter Plattform zu finden.
Paul Tillich (1886-1965) war ein Denker von internationaler Ausstrahlung und weltweitem Rang. Von seinen Schriften gehen wichtige Impulse für die theologischen, religionsphilosophischen und ...kulturtheoretischen Debatten aus. Die Reihe Tillich Research reflektiert die internationale Forschung zu diesem namhaften Theologen und Philosophen, die wissenschaftliche Erschließung seines Werks mit jeweils ganz unterschiedlichen Zugängen zu Rezeption und Interpretation sowie einer facettenreichen Auswahl und Gewichtung der Themen.
An attempt is made to develop a basic framework for an existential-phenomenological perspective on personality disorders. Its starting point is taken from the psychiatrist Antoni Kępiński and the ...philosopher Józef Tischner. The former provides a clinical framework capacious enough to allow ethical, existential, and phenomenological explorations. This conceptual “space” is then explicitly recognized, addressed, and fulfilled by the latter’s investigation of personality dynamics proper to “the hideout.” In order to supplement this thread of thought with a specific illustration, a “case” provided by Fyodor Dostoevsky in his Notes from the Underground is investigated. Then, in turn, Paul Tillich’s The Courage to Be is referred to, so that the deepest roots of personality disorders can be identified with an ontological dynamic proper to the avoidance of non-being. Finally, some brief remarks are made concerning how all the above relates to the idea of a normatively neutral science and how it can be integrated with more up to date clinical practice.
Life as Spirit Chan, Keith Ka-fu
2018, 2018-08-21, Letnik:
17
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Paul Tillich is exceptional in modern theologians that his distinctive and abundant understanding of the concept of life and spirit has the potential to engage with other disciplines, such as ...biology, psychology, cosmology and social science; and that his ontological understanding of "life as spirit" which is so crucial in the ecological consideration, is so complex and subtle that enables powerful and critical inter-religious dialogue in environmental ethics. This book argues that, despite the fact that Tillich did not engage in ecological and environmental theology directly, his abundant personal experience of nature-mysticism and intellectual understanding of the idea of nature rooted in his Lutheran and German idealist heritages and, more importantly, his ontological-pneumatological holistic and multi-dimensional conception of unifying and differentiated reality, perfectly and organically coupled with the theonomous vision of theology of culture, nature and morality is profoundly ecologically oriented.
Das Dämonische Danz, Christian; Schüßler, Werner
2018, 2018-08-21, Letnik:
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Paul Tillich (1886-1965) war ein Denker von internationaler Ausstrahlung und weltweitem Rang. Von seinen Schriften gehen wichtige Impulse für die theologischen, religionsphilosophischen und ...kulturtheoretischen Debatten aus. Die Reihe Tillich Research reflektiert die internationale Forschung zu diesem namhaften Theologen und Philosophen, die wissenschaftliche Erschließung seines Werks mit jeweils ganz unterschiedlichen Zugängen zu Rezeption und Interpretation sowie einer facettenreichen Auswahl und Gewichtung der Themen.
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