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Paul Tillich and Christian Theology The purpose of this research is t

The purpose of this research is to examine the dialogue between the Christian theology of Paul Tillich and a range of non-Christian religious and philosophical perspectives. The plan of the research will be to place Tillich's theological method and principal conceptions in the perspective of modern thought, and then to show how his correlation theology, which is an elaboration of faith and a philosophical response to the modern world, informs the manner in which he deals with alternative secular and religious systems of thought.

To infer a connection between the human condition and spiritual writing, whether in the form of theology or scripture, is simply to note that the latter is the intelligent, sensitive being's way of coping with or otherwise coming to terms with the former. The impulse toward making meaning and significance out of a flood of content and experience is the psychological provenance of written communication in general and spiritual writing in particular. This is true across cultures and ages, and indeed across theistic and atheistic modes of thought.

Max Weber's examination of the origins and development of various religious traditions shows that overarching the creative human enterprise, including but not limited to written communication, is the tendency toward making the universe increasingly thinkable. For the theologian, spiritual thinkability is a special category, and sacred texts and theology alike are a projection of this quality. But both secular and spiritual writing presuppose the rational faculty in the writer, which precedes the organization and reduction of thought to written or otherwise abstracted form. It is, indeed, the presumption of a tendency toward rationality that engages Weber's exploration of meaning in general and the basic social structure that provides a frame in which meanings can be explained. Rationality, also translated from Weber as rationalism, is a concept that is central to ...

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