Retrieving the Radical Tillich

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Russell Re Manning

      Pages 1-19

3. Tillich’s Radical Legacy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. A Homage to Paulus

      • Thomas J. J. Altizer

      Pages 23-29

   3. Paul Tillich and the Death of God

      • Daniel J. Peterson

      Pages 31-46

   4. God Is a Symbol for God

      • Richard Grigg

      Pages 47-64

   5. The Nemesis Hex

      • Christopher D. Rodkey

      Pages 65-80

   6. Parataxis and Theonomy

      • Christopher Craig Brittain

      Pages 81-98

   7. Peacemaking on the Boundary

      • Matthew Lon Weaver

      Pages 99-110

4. Tillich and Contemporary Radical Theologies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111

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   2. The Irrelevance and Relevance of the Radical, Impure Tillich

      • Mike Grimshaw

      Pages 113-131

   3. Socialism’s Multitude: Tillich’s The Socialist Decision and Resisting the US Imperial

      • Mark Lewis Taylor

      Pages 133-157

   4. Changing Ontotheology: Paul Tillich, Catherine Malabou, and the Plastic God

      • Jeffrey W. Robbins

      Pages 159-177

   5. Can There Be a Theology of Disenchantment? Speculative Realism, Correlationism, and Unbinding the nihil in Tillich

      • Thomas A. James

      Pages 179-192

   6. Depth and the Void

      • Clayton Crockett

      Pages 193-207

   7. The Critical Project in Schelling, Tillich, and Goodchild

      • Daniel Whistler

      Pages 209-231

   8. Radical Apologetics: Paul Tillich and Radical Philosophical Atheism

      • Russell Re Manning

      Pages 233-247

5. Back Matter

   Pages 249-274

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Paul Tillich is best known today as a theologian of mediation. Many have come to view him as an out-of-date thinker a safe exemplar of a mid-twentieth-century theological liberalism. The way he has come to be viewed contrasts sharply with the current theological landscape one dominated by the notion of radicality. In this collection, Russell Re Manning breaks with the widespread opinion of Tillich as 'safe' and dated. Retrieving the Radical Tillich depicts the thinker as a radical theologian, strongly marked but never fully determined by the urgent critical demands of his time. From the crisis of a German cultural and religious life after the First World War, to the new realities of religious pluralism, Tillich's theological responses were always profoundly ambivalent, impure and disruptive, asserts Re Manning. The Tillich that is outlined and analyzed by this collection is never merely correlative. Far from the dominant image of the theologian as a liberal accommodationist, Re Manning reintroduces the troubled and troubling figure of the radical Tillich.

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“This book of thirteen chapters and an introduction by Russell Re Manning, is an attempt to explore the nature and identity of the radical Tillich. … The papers are written for specialists and readers are expected to be familiar with a range of contemporary philosophical movements. … Russell Re Manning has done much to promote the study of Tillich. … His chapter and introduction in this book demonstrate the depth of his knowledge of, and engagement with, Tillich.” (Graeme Smith, Modern Believing, April, 2016)

Thomas J. J. Altizer, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA Daniel J. Peterson, Seattle University, USA Matthew Lon Weaver, Glen Avon Presbyterian Church, USA Christopher C. Brittain, University of Aberdeen, UK Daniel Whistler, Liverpool University, UK Christopher Rodkey, Lebanon Valley College, USA Michael Grimshaw, University of Canterbury, Auckland, NZ Jeffrey W. Robbins, Lebanon Valley College, USA Thomas A. James, Union Presbyterian Seminary, USA Clayton Crockett, University of Central Arkansas, USA Mark Lewis Taylor, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA Richard Grigg, Sacred Heart University, USA

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