Flint Memorial Library (North Reading)

The essential Tillich, an anthology of the writings of Paul Tillich, edited, with a preface, by F. Forrester Church

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non fiction

The essential Tillich

41108517

edited, with a preface, by F. Forrester Church

an anthology of the writings of Paul Tillich

Product Description: "With this volume, Paul Tillich joins the ranks of the great Christian theologians such as Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas. . . .This volume, compiled by a noted minister and scholar, offers to the theological student, church worker, or, indeed, any serious reader struggling with the existential question, a tantalizing and illuminating introduction to perhaps the greatest mind of twentieth-century Protestant theology."-Booklist

Foreword / Mutie Tillich Farris -- Preface / F Forrester Church -- Invocation: Lost dimension in religion -- Part 1: Ultimate Concern -- 1: God -- 2: What faith is -- 3: Our ultimate concern -- Part 2: Symbols Of Faith -- 4: Meaning of symbol -- 5: Nature of religious language -- 6: Divine Name -- 7: Truth of a religious symbol -- Part 3: Protestant Principle -- 8: Protestantism -- 9: Spiritual presence -- 10: New being -- Part 4: Addressing The Situation -- 11: Aspects of a religious analysis of culture -- 12: Word of religion -- 13: Eternal now -- Part 5: Love, Power, And Justice -- 14: Shaking of the foundations -- 15: Socialist principle -- 16: Unity of love, power, and justice -- 17: Love is stronger than death -- Part 6: Courage To Be -- 18: Estrangement and sin -- 19: Courage and transcendence -- 20: You are accepted -- Part 7: Future Of Religions -- 21: Personal character of the experience of the holy -- 22: On the boundary line -- 23: Christian principles of judging non-Christian religions -- 24: Martin Buber -- 25: Significance of the history of religions for the systematic theologian -- Part 8: Living On The Boundary -- 26: Frontiers -- 27: What am I? -- 28: Behold, I am a new thing