Paul Tillich's Philosophical Theology ― A Fifty Year Reappraisal

Paul Tillich's Philosophical Theology takes up the challenge as to whether Tillich's thought remains relevant fifty years after his death. On the one hand, Tillich's systematic approach might mark him out as representing the kind of metaphysical thought critiqued by postmodernism, suggesting that he has relatively little to say to us today. However, drawing on his early research on Schelling, his religious socialism, his writings on art, and his preaching, as well as on his more systematic writings, the book argues that his thought is in many respects exemplary of open theological engagement with the contemporary intellectual situation.

George Pattison has held posts in the universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and Aarhus (Denmark) and is currently 1640 Professor of Divinity at the University of Glasgow and a Visiting Professor at the University of Copenhagen. He has published extensively on Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and philosophy of religion in the continental tradition. His books include Anxious Angels: A Retrospective View of Religious Existentialism (1999), God and Being (2011), Heidegger and Death (2013) and he is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Theology and Modern European Thought.