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The Theology of Paul Tillich: Contexts and Key Issues

By author: Christian Danz
Product Code: P703
ISBN: 9780881469523
Publisher: Mercer University Press
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THE THEOLOGY OF PAUL TILLICH examines Tillich's main theological work, the three-volume Systematic Theology, against the background of Tillich's developing theological thought since his studies around 1900. While the Systematic Theology emerged from lectures Tillich gave at Union Theological Seminary in New York from 1936 onwards, his lectures on "Advanced Problems in Systematic Theology" take up considerations that go back to his first drafts of a systematic theology from 1913 and his dogmatic lectures from Germany in the 1920s. The Systematic Theology that Tillich published in the U.S. cannot, therefore, be understood without including his German dogmatic drafts, an area of Tillich research that has previously been underrepresented in English scholarship. In Part I, the development of Tillich's theology from the time of his studies in Berlin, Tübingen, Halle, and again in Berlin up to his immigration to the United States in 1933 is examined by tracing his revelation-theological concept of religion within the context of theological developments in Germany at the time. Part II is devoted to a systematic perspective on the doctrine of God, Christology, pneumatology, and a theology of religions in the late Systematic Theology. This presentation of Tillich's theology is framed by a prologue and an epilogue. While the former places his theological thinking within the history of the development of modern Protestant theology, the latter identifies problematic elements within Tillich's theology that must be overcome in a post-pluralist world. The result is a concise introduction to Paul Tillich's thought in the context of twentieth-century Protestant theology and a clear direction for responsible appropriations of Tillich's theology today.
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Review by: Gary Dorrien, author of IN A POST-HEGELIAN SPIRIT - July 10, 2024
"Christian Danz has been writing meticulous, judicious, astute articles and books on Paul Tillich since his Habilitation thesis at Jena in 1999. This book is a splendid gift to English readers, a gist version of Danz's signature scholarly rendering of Tillich's early grappling with J. G. Fichte, his early attempts to develop a system, his development of a theology of faith and revelation, his doctrines of God, Christ, and pneumatology, and his late-career reflections on the theology of religions. Danz makes a robust case that Tillich's often-overlooked pneumatology in the third volume of his Systematic Theology is the linchpin of his theology, the place where salvation is appropriated in history."
Review by: Mary Ann Stenger, professor emerita of Humanities, University of Louisville - July 10, 2024
"Scholars of Paul Tillich's theology will benefit greatly from Christian Danz's THE THEOLOGY OF PAUL TILLICH. By placing Tillich's early German writings in the context of the German theological debates of his time (Part I), Danz offers both an overview and an analysis of several important early works still not available in English. Danz shows how central topics in Tillich's early writings, particularly the understanding of religion, religious symbol, the demonic, anxiety, general and special revelation, and the absoluteness of Christianity, develop in relation to Fichte, Schelling, Troeltsch, Rudolf Otto, and Karl Barth as well as other thinkers. In Part II, Danz compares Tillich's early theology with his later Systematic Theology and with the later writings on non-Christian religions and assesses to what extent Tillich's theology can contribute to contemporary theological debates."
Review by: Carl Raschke, professor of Philosophy of Religion, University of Denver; and senior editor of The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory - July 10, 2024
"Christian Danz's book on the theology of Paul Tillich is perhaps the most comprehensive, detailed, and insightful analysis of the twentieth century's greatest religious thinker that has ever been published. Its close reading of the entirety of the original German archive of Tillich's writings and its unprecedent and highly nuanced interpretation of his formative influences, for example, his reliance on Schelling in his later career, makes it a must read for all scholars in the field of religion."

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