Rechtfertigung und Neues Sein (Grosse Texte Der Christenheit)

by Paul Tillich, Christian Danz (Editor)

Justification and New Being are two main concepts in Paul Tillich's theology. The concept of justification on the one side shows Tillich's theology against the background of the Lutheran theological tradition - the new being on the other side includes the horizon of problems in modernity. This book presents with the early article Justification and Doubt (1924) and the late essay The Importance of New Being for Christian Theology (1955) two main works from Tillich with a close interpretation. Both texts make clear how Tillich works on a modern interpretation of the Christian faith and a modern theology.

168 pages, Paperback

Published September 1, 2018

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.