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View article: Disintegrated World
Disintegrated World Open
The Protestant religious intellectual Paul Tillich interpreted the social and world political situation in the 1930s and 1940s as a disintegrating world. This signature of modernity owed itself not to chance but to a structurally necessary…
View article: God, Religion and History: The Significance of Schelling’s Philosophy of Religion for Determining the Concept of Religion
God, Religion and History: The Significance of Schelling’s Philosophy of Religion for Determining the Concept of Religion Open
This article discusses Schelling’s contribution to the definition of the concept of religion in post-Kantian philosophy. In three lines of argument, it is shown that Schelling’s late lectures on the philosophy of mythology and revelation p…
View article: God and Evil—Systematic-Theological Reflections on the Doctrine of God
God and Evil—Systematic-Theological Reflections on the Doctrine of God Open
Against the background of the current debates about God and evil, the article elaborates in three stages of argumentation the thesis that statements about God must not be understood as factual or representational statements, but as descrip…
View article: Theology, Religion, Culture. Reflections on Systematic Theology following Paul Tillich
Theology, Religion, Culture. Reflections on Systematic Theology following Paul Tillich Open
Following Paul Tillich, the article sketches the basic lines of a systematic theology of modern culture in the age of religious pluralism. It begins with a brief reconstruction of the systematic foundations of Tillich’s theory of culture f…
View article: Theology of nature: Reflections on the dogmatic doctrine of creation
Theology of nature: Reflections on the dogmatic doctrine of creation Open
The doctrine of creation and the knowledge of nature have come into tension in modernity. Against this background, the article discusses the basic problems of a theology of nature starting from a systematic theology of religious communicat…
View article: Religious Diversity and the Concept of Religion
Religious Diversity and the Concept of Religion Open
Summary The article deals with the concept of religion in the contemporary theology of religions. Many theologians in the current debate work with a general concept of religion. Such a conception of religion unifies the distinctive religio…
View article: Freedom, sin and the absoluteness of Christianity: reflections on the early Tillich’s Schelling-reception
Freedom, sin and the absoluteness of Christianity: reflections on the early Tillich’s Schelling-reception Open
The article discusses the reception of Schelling’s philosophy by the young Paul Tillich. During his study on the theological faculty of the University of Halle from 1905 until 1907 Tillich was influenced by the Fichte interpretation of Fri…
View article: CHRISTIANITY AND THE ENCOUNTER OF WORLD RELIGIONS. CONSIDERATIONS TO A CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY OF RELIGION
CHRISTIANITY AND THE ENCOUNTER OF WORLD RELIGIONS. CONSIDERATIONS TO A CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY OF RELIGION Open
A basic problem of the contemporary religious-theological discussion may consist in the task of connecting a methodically sensitive cultural-hermeneutical theory of religion with a normative perspective. This task cannot be fairly develope…