Cloth: 978-0-226-80332-6 | Paper: 978-0-226-80337-1 | Electronic: 978-0-226-15999-7
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226159997.001.0001
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In this path-breaking volume Tillich presents the basic method and statement of his system—his famous "correlation" of man's deepest questions with theological answers. Here the focus is on the concepts of being and reason. Tillich shows how the quest for revelation is integral to reason itself. In the same way a description of the inner tensions of being leads to the recognition that the quest for God is implied in finite being.
Here also Tillich defines his thought in relation to philosophy and the Bible and sets forth his famous doctrine of God as the "Ground of Being." Thus God is understood not as a being existing beside other beings, but as being-itself or the power of being in everything. God cannot be made into an object; religious knowledge is, therefore, necessarily symbolic.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
1. Message and Situation
2. Apologetic Theology and the Kerygma
3. The Theological Circle
4. Two Formal Criteria of Every Theology
5. Theology and Christianity
6. Theology and Philosophy: A Question
7. Theology and Philosophy: An Answer
C. The Organization of Theology
8. The Sources of Systematic Theology
9. Experience and Systematic Theology
10. The Norm of Systematic Theology
11. The Rational Character of Systematic Theology
12. The Method of Correlation
13. The Theological System
Part I. Reason and Revelation
1. The Two Concepts of Reason
2. Subjective and Objective Reason
3. The Depth of Reason
4. The Finitude and the Ambiguities of Actual Reason
5. The Conflict within Actual Reason and the Quest for Revelation
6. The Ontological Structure of Knowledge
7. Cognitive Relations
8. Truth and Verification
1. The Marks of Revelation
2. The Mediums of Revelation
3. The Dynamics of Revelation: Original and Dependent Revelation
4. The Knowledge of Revelation
5. Actual and Final Revelation
6. The Final Revelation in Jesus as the Christ
7. The History of Revelation
8. Revelation and Salvation
9. Final Revelation Overcoming the Conflict between Autonomy and Heteronomy
10. Final Revelation Overcoming the Conflict between Absolutism and Relativism
11. Final Revelation Overcoming the Conflict between Formalism and Emotionalism
12. God and the Mystery of Revelation
13. Final Revelation and the Word of God
Part II. Being and God
Introduction: The Question of Being
1. Man, Self, and World
2. The Logical and the Ontological Object
3. Individualization and Participation
4. Dynamics and Form
5. Freedom and Destiny
6. Being and Nonbeing
7. The Finite and the Infinite
8. Finitude and the Categories
9. Finitude and the Ontological Elements
10. Essential and Existential Being
11. The Possibility of the Question of God and the So-called Ontological Argument
12. The Necessity of the Question of God and the So-called Cosmological Arguments
a) God and Man's Ultimate Concern
b) God and the Idea of the Holy
a) Typology and the History of Religion
b) Types of Polytheism
c) Types of Monotheism
d) Philosophical Transformations
a) God as Being and Finite Being
b) God as Being and the Knowledge of God
a) God as Being and Living
b) The Divine Life and the Ontological Elements
c) God as Spirit and the Trinitarian Principles
5. God as Creating
a) God's Originating Creativity
b) God's Sustaining Creativity
c) God's Directing Creativity
a) The Divine Holiness and the Creature
b) The Divine Power and the Creature
c) The Divine Love and the Creature
d) God as Lord and Father
Index
Index