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Title: Eternal Now by Paul Tillich, Luther Wiegle, David H. Kelsey ISBN: 0-334-02875-2 Publisher: Scm Pr Pub. Date: June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Recognizing the reality of doubt
Comment: Tillich recognizes the human condition and the frailties of human existence. In the first 6 sermons on "the human predicament", he discusses such paradoxical human conditions as loneliness and solitude, forgetting and being forgotten, and "The good that I will, I do not". "The divine reality" section contains sermons on the harder aspects of Christianity, that no one can say with certainty that they are participating in the new reality, the Holy Spirit, and that the flight from God begins the moment we feel His presence. Tillich recognizes the reality of doubt, for if we could possess Him like any other familiar work, God would not be God (and perhaps if we do not have doubts, we are limiting Him too much!). Throughout the book, Tillich recognizes the message of "divine foolishness" (his phrase), and the role of the Holy in wisdom and meaning. These are thought provoking sermons, particularly for those of an existentialist bent.
Rating: 3
Summary: Accessible and digestible Tillich
Comment: Part of a three volume collection of chapel addresses ("The New Being" and "The Shaking of the Foundations" are the companion volumes), this book is an unorganized introduction to Tillich's thought. Each sermon is self-contained; however, the collection has been organized into three sections.
The first, The Human Predicament, spoke strongly to me, perhaps because I identify so strongly with the sixties. Tillich's themes, loneliness, being forgotten, evil, being, ministry and eternity, are shared with a depth and insight rarely captured in sermon form. For example, he writes, "they never find the courage to make a total judgment against themselves, and therefore, they can never find the courage to believe in a total acceptance of themselves." In this section, Tillich reveals that he is thoroughly Christian, and thoroughly human.
I found the second section, The Divine Reality, less meaningful. Perhaps his themes were too familiar to me, but his comments on spiritual presence, the divine name, God's pursuit of man, salvation and eternity did not grab me with the same intensity as section one.
The last section is The Challenge to Man, in which Tillich deals with nonconformity, strength, maturity, wisdom and thanksgiving, is a return to what he does best - apply Christianity to the human condition. It is filled with practical, sermon-level applications of his ontological theology. "Be what you are - that is the only thing one can ask of any being."
I was quite impressed by Tillich the preacher. His grasp of both grace and humanity is exceptional.
Rating: 5
Summary: A very capable introduction to Tillich's perspective.
Comment: Enegetic and simple, The Eternal Now is a very accessible introduction to the multi-faceted theology of Paul Tillich. Throughout this collection of sermons, Tillich emphasizes the connection between the temporal and eternal (a strength of his writing in general). And, this emphasis is achieved with a light hand, Tillich repeatedly walks the reader calmly towards the realization of how much can still be accomplished by the individual, what courage he or she can still gain -- how much, all of us, are still rooted "in divine ground." Tillich speaks from a Christian perspective, but his wisdom is non-denominational. His is a theology even for the stoutest critic, because as Tillich alludes to in the following passage from The Eternal Now, cynic and priest can ask similar questions from a similar conidition: "There are many ways in which solitude can be sought and experienced. And each way can be called 'religious,' . . . as one philosopher said . . . 'religion is what a man does with his solitariness.'" Emphasizing that such things as eternal questions and Love do not belong to a specific religion or era, Tillich's work speaks to, and beyond, our time and culture. He demands such a flexibility of perspective from us as humans. This is the legacy and promise Tillich offers, and The Eternal Now is a very capable introduction to it.
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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 New Being by Paul Tillich ISBN: 0684719088 Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company Pub. Date: June, 1955 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The SHAKING OF THE FOUNDATIONS by P Tillich ISBN: 068471910X Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 January, 1940 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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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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Title: Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality by Paul Tillich ISBN: 0226803414 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: June, 1964 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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