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...Tillich develops this idea in his latest book, Existence and the Christ (University of Chicago; $4.50), published last week as Volume II of his massive work-in-progress, a three-volume Systematic Theology. Apart from his lighter writing and lecturing on everything from modern art to depth psychology, Harvard's Tillich is attempting to construct a modern Protestant "system"-fitting all aspects of the Christian faith together in a single intellectual whole. To this titanic task German-born Paul Tillich brought a Teutonic ponderosity in Volume I, published six years ago. It was constructed on a plan called "correlation...
...volume shows the effect of Tillich's longer stay in the U.S. (he came at the age of 47 speaking virtually no English) as well as the services of his Harvard colleague, the Rev. John Dillen-berger, 38, who, says Tillich, "did the hard work of 'Englishing' my style." Existence and the Christ is written clearly and cleanly enough to make Tillich's theology accessible to any serious reader...
From Essence to Existence. "I am an existentialist," Tillich is fond of telling people, and he writes: "Immanuel Kant once said that mathematics is the good luck of human reason. In the same way, one could say that existentialism is the good luck of Christian theology. It has helped to rediscover the classical Christian interpretation of human existence...
Shaking & Healing. Tillich's analysis of the layers of meaning in the chief dogma of Christianity, that of the Resurrection, lays bare the trend of his unorthodox thought. Where the physics-minded 19th century sought to "explain" the Resurrection and the miracles by means of physical phenomena, Tillich looks again to a psychological interpreation. The Resurrection is for Tillich ) both reality and myth-a myth that has always been present in what Jung calls nan's collective unconscious. The resurrection of gods and half-gods is a familiar mythological symbol, says Tillich, and he Jews of Jesus...
...good orthodox style, Tillich sees Christ as the center of history, preceded by a line of preparatory revelation and followed by a line of later revelation. "Further . . . where there is revelation, there is salvation. Revelation is not information about divine things; it is the ecstatic manifestation of the Ground of Being in events, persons and things. Such manifestations have shaking, transforming and healing power. They are saving events in which the power of the New Being is present. On these healing forces the life of mankind always depends; they prevent the self-destructive structures of existence from plunging mankind into...