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Paul Tillich? I wouldn't have guessed that, what do you think of his work?
Yeah, I went through my Tillich phase years ago. I read The Courage To Be, Dynamics of Faith, his Systematic Theology and a work he wrote about religion. One of my professors also gave me his thesis on Tillich, which I probably still have.
What do you think about Tillich's approach? his "ground of all being" theology?
What's your takeaway from Tillich's theology? How do you feel about the whole "ground of being" approach?
One work I left out by Tillich was his brief work detailing the history of Christianity. As I now look back at Tillich's theology, while I find some things of value in his writings, I find his overall approach to be limited and disappointing. Tillich is often misunderstood because he tried to reframe Reformation thought in existential terms; hence, the "ground of all being" talk and his emphasis on the "courage to be" or "the God above God."
I discussed Tillich's thought in my dissertation (Glasgow University). One of the university examiners was taken aback to see me interact with Tillich, but what most caught my attention then were his ideas about symbolic theology. If you've ever read Bultmann or Martin Heidegger, then you can more readily understand Tillich's project and his penchant for existentialism.
It's been a long time since I read Tillich: in addition to his abstract theology, he had some personal failings too that disappointed me. I still like his critique of the Incarnation doctrine.
See https://fosterheologicalreflections.blogspot.com/2005/09/paul-tillichs-inexpressible.html
Thanks, I've read a bit of Bultmann (his historical Jesus stuff, and stuff on the gospels, his theology of demythologizing doesn't interest me all that much), and Heidegger I've only intereacted with in secondary material (I don't have the guts to read him himself, I barely can grasp anything in secondary material).
Thanks for the link to an older blog post :). Tillich seems a little like Pseudo-Dionysius in this post ... focusing on total trascendence and absoluteness being "beyond" all created categories and distinctions.
Is his "symbolic theology" similar to the Dionysian notion of "names of God"? I.e. they don't describe God, but they point to him?
PS: Sorry for the double post earlier, and thanks for enternaining my questions.
Many scholars give acclaim to Bultmann's commentary on the fourth Gospel, but I like his analysis of the Johannine Epistles better: Paul Anderson gives a helpful critique of Bultmann's "John" commentary in Anderson's work about Johannine Christology.
For the record, I'm not recommending that anyone read Martin Heidegger's "Sein und Zeit" (Being and Time) although the work is historically important and helps students of Bultmann and Tillich to grasp what each writer was doing, Being and Time is a drudgery for most people and I found it to be redundant. Some of Heidegger isn't too bad, but his major work is hard to finish. Furthermore, Heidegger was part of the National Socialist Party at one point, which perpetually stained his reputation.
That's a good way of looking at Tillich. I think he was trying to talk the ineffable, being-itself or absolute reality. I believe Tillich ultimately thought that God is being-itself and above all categorization.
See https://www.jstor.org/stable/1200689?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
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