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Title: Systematic Theology, vol. 3: Life and the Spirit: History and the Kingdom of God by Paul Tillich ISBN: 0-226-80339-2 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: August, 1976 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Classic in 20th c. Protestant Theology
Comment: Paul Tillich's ~Systematic Theology~ is one of the most important theological works of the 20th century, and the theological system par excellence of liberal Protestant Christianity. In his day, Tillich was held in high esteem not only among theologians, but by experts in many different fields for his incredible breadth of knowledge, his insight into culture, and his humanity.
'Liberal Protestantism' sought to reconcile the gospel and the Christian faith with contemporary cultural ideas, rather then set the two up against each other. Religion is, for Tillich, the best of culture. (An alternative view, for example, is that of Karl Barth, who saw the gospel as fundamentally a critique of culture - as the Word speaking from outside ~to~ the world, not within the world). So, for Tillich, there should be signs of God everywhere, not just in Christianity, and religion and culture and closely connected.
God, for Tillich, is not therefore the anthropomorphized God of the Old Testament, who has a personality and creates and destroys and judges in an almost arbitrary fashion. Instead, Tillich sees God as 'the ground of being'. God is the very fundament on which rests everything that is. God is the Abyss.
The problem with man, for Tillich, is his 'finitude'. Man's life is finite, his body makes him finite, his capacities are finite, yet he craves to transcend these, to be unlimited, to be God. This is impossible; rather one should accept one's finitude courageously. This is what Jesus did singularly and perfectly - he never sinned, because he always accepted the finite nature of his being; he faced death courageously. Tillich's christology is therefore a 'spirit christology' (Jesus was led by the spirit) rather than a 'logos christology' (Jesus was God incarnate, the Word made flesh).
The last important thing is that Tillich makes use of his famous 'theory of correlation'. This is how the 3 volumes of his ~Systematic Theology~ are set up. According to this theory, things in culture are correlated with the theology; theology provides the 'answers' to the 'questions' posed by culture. So his five sections (divided among the 3 volumes) are called: 'Reason and Revelation', 'Being and God', 'Existence and the Christ', 'Life and the Spirit', 'History and the Kingdom of God'.
Tillich's writing is for the most part easy enough to read for the layperson - just don't get bothered by particular tricky bits. I would recommend it to anyone interested in theology; it has influenced a generation of theologians.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Masterful End to the 20th's Cent.'s best Theo. System
Comment: Life, what is universal to us all, and God's presence throughout through his Divine Spirit, the Spiritual Community arising out of this life, and the Kingdom which rules its being through God's purity of fulfillment and vast embracing grace; all of these are beautifully portrayed in this work. It is hard to underrate this work and exaggerate its importance. Though it is not complete in the sense of lacking nothing, it opens the doors for exploring answers that perplex and confront Christianity vigorously demanding answers today.
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Title: Theology of Culture by Paul Tillich, Robert C. Kimball ISBN: 0195007115 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: December, 1959 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Courage to Be (Yale Nota Bene) by Paul Tillich, Peter J. Gomes ISBN: 0300084714 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation: Human Nature (Library of Theological Ethics) by Reinhold Niebuhr, Robin W. Lovin ISBN: 0664257097 Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Foundations of Christian Faith: An Introduction to the Idea of Christianity by Karl Rahner, William V. Dych ISBN: 0824505239 Publisher: Crossroad/Herder & Herder Pub. Date: January, 1983 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Dynamics of Faith by Paul Tillich ISBN: 0060937130 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 16 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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