Paul Tillich is best known today as a theologian of mediation. Many have come to view him as an out-of-date thinker a safe exemplar of a mid-twentieth-century theological liberalism. The way he has come to be viewed contrasts sharply with the current theological landscape one dominated by the notion of radicality. In this collection, Russell Re Manning breaks with the widespread opinion of Tillich as 'safe' and dated. Retrieving the Radical Tillich depicts the thinker as a radical theologian, strongly marked but never fully determined by the urgent critical demands of his time. From the...

For all the talk of dialogue between science and religion, too much work in the field is one-sided. This book corrects this balance by presenting essays that affirm the mutual enrichment of both science and theology through work that engages at their interface. The contributors celebrate the fruitful coming together of insights from the psychological sciences and theology for the enrichment of psychology and theology, as well as religious reflection and practice. A pioneer in the field of religious cognition, Fraser Watts has sought to re-envisage psychology and theology (as well as...

Fifty years after his death in 1965 the essays in this collection return to Paul Tillich to investigate his theology and its legacy, with a focus on contemporary British scholarship. Originating in a conference held in Oxford in 2014, the book contains 16 original contributions from a mixture of junior and more established scholars, most of whom have a connection to Britain.

The contributions are diverse, but four themes emerge throughout the volume. Several essays are concerning with a characterisation of Tillich's theology. In dialogue with recent emphases on the radical Tillich,...