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This is the first part of Paul Tillich's three-volume Systematic Theology, one of the most profound statements of the Christian message ever composed and the summation and definitive presentation of the theology of the most influential and creative American theologian of the twentieth century.
In this path-breaking volume Tillich presents the basic method and statement of his system—his famous "correlation" of man's deepest questions with theological answers. Here the focus is on the concepts of being and reason. Tillich shows how the quest for revelation is integral to reason itself. In the same way a description of the inner tensions of being leads to the recognition that the quest for God is implied in finite being.
Here also Tillich defines his thought in relation to philosophy and the Bible and sets forth his famous doctrine of God as the "Ground of Being." Thus God is understood not as a being existing beside other beings, but as being-itself or the power of being in everything. God cannot be made into an object; religious knowledge is, therefore, necessarily symbolic.
- Sales Rank: #64661 in Books
- Published on: 1973-09-15
- Released on: 1973-09-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .78" w x 6.00" l, .84 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 307 pages
About the Author
Paul Tillich (1886-1965), one of the great theologians of the twentieth century, taught at Union Theological Seminary, New York, and then at the University of Chicago and Harvard University.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
The tension between the concrete and the ultimate
By Ulfilas
Although I do not subscribe to Christian beliefs or those of other organized religions, I find Tillich's approach to religion and Christianity to be interesting and valuable. Paul Tillich touches upon the most important aspects of religion throughout the world and history. Naturally, there is a particular emphasis on Biblical Judaism and Christianity. The polytheism of Greek mythology and Hinduism are often discussed and contrasted with monotheism, although Islam is seldom mentioned.
Tillich's theology is clearly very different from a literal, fundamentalist view, which he considers to have "demonic traits" and notes that "It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of its thoughtful adherents , and it makes them fanatical because they are forced to suppress elements of truth of which they are dimly aware" (p.3).
Of Jesus and the importance of his life, Tillich has many illuminating thoughts:
"Even the Christ is Christ only because he did not insist on his equality with God but renounced it as a personal possession (Philippians, chap. 2)." (p.134)
"All reports and interpretation of the New Testament concerning Jesus as the Christ possess two outstanding characteristics: his maintenance of unity with God and his sacrifice of everything he could have gained for himself from this unity. The first point is clear in the Gospel reports about the unbreakable unity of his being and with the ground of all being, in spite of his participation in the ambiguities of human life." (p.135)
Regarding religion in general, Tillich says:
"The history of religion is full of human attempts to participate in divine power and use it for human purposes." p.213
"Man cannot be concerned about something less than he is, something impersonal." (p.223)
Tillich pays particular attention to the tension between the concrete and the ultimate in man's religious experience (p.226): polytheism being more concrete than ultimate, an absolute monotheistic deity being more ultimate than concrete, the Trinity being an attempt to formulate a religion that is both concrete and ultimate (p.228). Tillich does not consider it necessary for God correspond to the exactly the three entities of the Trinity. He only argues that more aspects of the divine allow God to be more tangible.
25 of 25 people found the following review helpful.
Major theological developments
By FrKurt Messick
This is a one-volume version hardback version of Tillich's Systematic Theology, that was released in three volumes over two decades. Tillich, in his series on Systematic Theology, addresses the overall problem of meaning and meaninglessness in modern times. Written in the middle of the twentieth century, Tillich's theology is greatly influenced by the intellectual developments of the late nineteenth/early twentieth century philosophies, including such schools of thought as phenomenology (Husserl, Heidegger, etc.) as well as existentialism, and in particular issues such as `the death of God' philosophical/theological speculations. Tillich's theology is also significantly influenced by (as are the intellectual developments of which he was part) larger historical events such as the first and second world wars. Tillich, a native of Germany, saw meaninglessness first-hand in the trench warfare of the first world war, in which he served as a chaplain. He also saw problems in the rise of the Nazi party, not just for political and cultural issues, but also theological issues (such as the idolatry of the state over God).
Tillich, spirited out of Germany during the rise of the Nazi power, spent the remainder of his career teaching in universities and seminaries in the United States. This first volume of his major work in Systematic Theology was produced in 1950, while he was in residence at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, drawn there by his friend and fellow theologian Reinhold Niebuhr.
In the first part, Tillich discusses the sources of theology as he sees them - scripture (both text and the events behind the text), the overall church history and tradition, and the wider traditions and history of religion in the world. Tillich has a problem with seeing experience as a source, but rather prefers this to be seen more appropriately as the medium through which the sources are understood and analysed. Tillich introduces norms and the rational character of systematic theology - Tillich is in many ways writing for philosophers who have discounted the validity of theology in the modern world; by emphasising the aspects of reason and logic in his system, he carries more weight in that community. Tillich also develops his famous Method of Correlation, a dialectical system of engagement between the temporal situation and the eternal in an ongoing process.
Tillich explores the various aspects and relationship of reason and revelation, including ways of trying to make sense in a rational manner of revelations, including what constitutes final revelation. From here, Tillich proceeds with his ontological constructions - one of the keys to Tillich's overall theology is contained here, in which God is the `ground of being'. Some have accused Tillich of being an existential atheist, because they have heard that Tillich claims that God does not exist - while it is true that, for Tillich, God does not exist, it is not true that there is no God; Tillich defines the term `existence' as being `that which is created', and as God is not a created being, God cannot exist. Rather, God is something greater, something deeper - the ground of being. God also becomes the only appropriate `ultimate concern' (another key element in Tillich's theology) - that concept is developed in this volume as well.
The second section is primarily Tillich's Christology. Tillich has a small section that relates the second volume to the first, and restates some major points from the first section, but very quickly jumps into the concepts of existence/existentialism and Christian theology, developing from there concepts of sin and human estrangement (setting the stage for Christ and salvation/redemption in the new being of Christ). For Tillich, the central question of the age is one of meaning, and Christ is meaningful, as a New Being, who has a uniqueness and a universality, but not in typical Christian theological ways.
Tillich's third section addresses topics of life in the Spirit, how his overall theological constructs of God as Ultimate Concern and the Ground of Being, translated through humanity's estrangement and redemption through Christ as the New Being, can have an impact on our own lives. Tillich develops ideas of self-actualisation and self-creativity, spiritual presence in faith and love, spiritual presence manifested in historical situations, and the various ambiguities. This is a perfect point at which to discuss dogmatic issues such as Trinitarianism, a problematic construct even for the most rational and traditional of theologies. Tillich concludes with a discussion of eschatology, the idea of `end-times' (not to be confused with the sort from `Left Behind' novels) and how the kingdom of God is present in reality past and present. This also approaches topics such as immortality and eternity - Tillich states that Christianity has traditional seen individual participation in eternal life in terms of immortality and resurrection, but that in fact immortality is not a biblical term - it is a Platonic idea taken on board by the church.
Tillich's theology was written in volumes: the first volume produced in 1950, the second in 1957 and the third volume in 1963, a few years before Tillich's death in 1965. Taken together, this theology represents a major theological force in the twentieth century, and one that is bound to continue to have impact for generations to come.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
An Important Twentieth-Century Work
By Anthony J. Ross
The first volume of Paul Tillich's Systematic Theology, is a challenging text that rewards thoughtful reading. Among other things, "Systematic Theology" allows readers to ponder the personal and social difference that faith in the biblical God makes. Because of its philosophical nature, it allows God to be discussed in terms that non-religious people can understand. Although Tillich deals with God in a concrete way and takes seriously the necessity of real faith, he discusses the impact of faith in the Christian God so that the texture of faith and its interaction with the individual soul in relation to God and others becomes clearer. While Tillich has been blamed for discussing God in terms that are overly abstract, it remains the case that his analysis, if less concrete than that of Karl Barth, provides ground for a vision of faith that displays the full dignity of human personality and temporal experience. Without this dimension, twentieth century theology would be missing a valuable existential component in an otherwise polarized religious landscape marked by extremes of fundamentalism and skeptical liberalism.
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