Paul Tillich, 1886-1965: Selections

by Paul Tillich

96 pages, Paperback

Published March 29, 1973

About the author

Paul Tillich was a German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher. Tillich was – along with his contemporaries Rudolf Bultmann (Germany), Karl Barth (Switzerland), and Reinhold Niebuhr (United States) – one of the four most influential Protestant theologians of the 20th century. Among the general populace, he is best known for his works The Courage to Be (1952) and Dynamics of Faith (1957), which introduced issues of theology and modern culture to a general readership. Theologically, he is best known for his major three-volume work Systematic Theology (1951–63), in which he developed his "method of correlation": an approach of exploring the symbols of Christian revelation as answers to the problems of human existence raised by contemporary existential philosophical analysis.

Reviews

[Jon Coutts · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm not a Tillich scholar so I don't know if these selections are the best. But they're succinct and well set up. Tinsley's intro to this five-author series would be a decent essay to assign for theology students.