New Being: A Study on the Relationship Between Conditioned and Unconditioned Being According to Paul Tillich

ISBN-13: 9789401502610 / Angielski / Miękka / 1969 / 228 str.

Kenan B. Osborne

Opis

The following study on Tillich's theology is based on a doctoral dissertation, presented to the Ludwig-Maximilian University at Munich in December, 1967. Tillich's theology, however, is not a simple structure to analyze, since it is so systematically interrelated. Certainly every major area of his theo logical system involves all other major areas, and even the minor areas have complex ramifications to the total system itself. The following pages, there fore, can only be construed as one among many viewpoints of his system. Tillich's theological structure might be compared to a painting or some other work of art: one must view it now from this direction, now from that. in order to appreciate the total effect. Certain points should, however, be mentioned here. First of all, a key notion in this system is "essentialization. " This concept rounds off and com pletes Tillich's entire work. Unfortunately, Tillich himself did not write extensively on this topic, nor did he actually correlate it to the beginning and middle of his system, although it expresses the final telos of his entire theo logical work. I have drawn out of the Systematic Theology as much as possi ble on the subject of "essentialization," and have tried to analyze it in light of other key-concepts in his system."

Spis treści

I: The threefold basic towards understanding conditioned being’s quest for the unconditioned.- 1. Identification and evaluation of the theme.- 2. The problematic of Tillich’s “quest”.- 3. The axial concepts in this problematic of the “quest”.- a. The axis: essence — existence — essentialization.- b. The axis: dialectic — paradox.- c. The axis: immanence — self — transcendence.- II: Three fundamental approaches to resolve the problematic of Tillich’s “quest”.- 1. The first approach: Tillich’s so-called “answering theology”.- a. General notion: the unity of theology and culture.- b. Tillich’s disagreement with the dialectical theology of Karl Barth.- c. Tillich in relation to contemporary radical theology in England and America.- d. Tillich’s methodology of correlation.- 2. The second approach: Tillich’s two formal criteria and his material norm for all systematic theology.- a. The first formal criterion: the question of ultimate concern.- b. The second formal criterion: the question of being and non-being.- c. The material norm: New Bing in Jesus as the Christ.- 3. The third approach: Tillich’s existentialism.- a. Tillich’s understanding of existentialism.- b. Tillich’s limited acceptance of existentialism.- III: Idealistic components in Tillich’s interpretation of the God-man relationship.- 1. German idealism in general.- 2. Tillich’s interpretation of the God-man relationship and Kant’s analysis of finitude.- 3. Tillich’s interpretation of the God-man relationship and Fichte’s dynamic view of the subject-object structure.- 4. Tillich’s prius of ultimate concern and Schleiermacher’s prius of “Das schlecht- hinnige Abhängigkeitsgefühl.- 5. Tillich’s interpretation of the God-man relationship and Schelling’s explanation of the transition from essence to existence.- 6. Tillich’s interpretation of the God-man relationship and Hegel’s explanation of dialectic.- IV: Tillich’s interpretation of old being.- 1. Old being as reason and the quest for revelation.- a. The aspect of Continuity.- b. The aspect of gratuity.- 2. Old being as finite essence and the question of God.- a. The aspect of continuity.- b. The aspect of gratuity.- 3. Old being as existence and the quest for the Christ.- 4. Old being as ambiguous life and the quest for unambiguous life.- a. Identification of concepts.- b. The aspects of continuity and gratuity.- 5. Old being as history and the quest for the kingdom of God.- a. The essential-existential pattern.- b. The meaning of history.- c. The aspect of continuity.- d. The aspect of gratuity.- 6. Conclusion concerning old being and the God-man relationship.- V: New Being in Jesus as the Christ.- 1. What does Tillich find in adequate or false in the chalcedonian formula?.- a. Tillich’s Presentation of Chalcedon.- b. Tillich’s disagreement over the word “nature”.- 2. What does Tillich mean by the incarnation?.- a. Tillich’s differentation between dialectic and paradox.- b. Tillich’s explanation of Essential Godmanhood.- 3. What does Tillich mean by redemption?.- 4. What does Tillich mean by redemption applied to men?.- VI: General conclusions and evaluations regarding Tillich’s interpretation of the God-man relationship.- 1. General criticisms.- a. The content of these definitions.- b. The predominance of essence.- c. Essence is normative.- 2. Positive and valid aspects of Tillich’s interpretation of the God-man relationship.- a. Continuity.- b. Gratuity.- Excursus: Tillich’s explanation of the two streams of philosophical thought since the renaissance.