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...Tillich, then, is not as tolerant and broad-minded as many liberal Protestants would have him. In fact, Morality and Beyond shows clearly that Paul and Luther have been Tillich's main intellectual influences. The theologian has systematized the influence within a quasi-Hegelian hierarchy and has humanized it with subjectivistic notions from existentialism...
MORALITY AND BEYOND, by Paul Tillich, Harper and Row, 95pp...
Without really knowing why, many of the Protestant faithful like to think of Paul Tillich as the theologian who has rediscovered the intellectual respectability of Christianity. This was certainly no easy job. After reading hundreds of philosophers and writers, Tillich still had to wrestle with a number of metaphysical titans--among them, Being, Non-Being, Being-Itself, The Demoniac, and the Eternal Kaires. In the end, these cosmic structures, along with his analysis of what man and history really are, come together "within a system that comprise the whole of man's interpretation of himself and the meaning...
...Tillich's theology depends on the use of ontological analysis, a method of philosohical inquiry into the fundamental nurture of being. This assumes to show no sensitivity to criticism. In an eight-line paragraph his most recent book, Morality and Beyond, summarily dismisses objections raised by analytical philosophy, "pure" pragmatism, "pure" existentialism (pure is not defined in either case) and value theories in psychology. Tillich thinks they all suffer from the demoniac malaise of our times, "self-sufficient finitude," or the "denial of the immanence of the infinite (God) in the finite...
...cowed: "There seems to be a genius under every rock." Or: "These kids grab you and tear you apart. They're always asking me what I believe." On balance, the new collegians get high marks from a faculty majority: "Who would have thought five year ago that Paul Tillich would be mobbed on this campus? I can't tell you how much pleasure it is now to meet a class.' As for the future, says one professor "these students are not going to accept the institution. They're not going to play dead." Sums up another...