Retrieving the Radical Tillich His Legacy and Contemporary Importance

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 Many have come to view him as an out-of-date thinker—a safe exemplar of a mid-twentieth-century theological liberalism.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.

Russell Re Manning is the Lord Gifford Fellow in Natural Theology at the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen, UK. He is an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, UK and holds a Visiting Fellowship at St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge, UK. He is the past-President of the North American Paul Tillich Society.

Introduction: The Real Tillich is the Radical Tillich; Russell Re Manning
PART I: TILLICH'S RADICAL LEGACY
1. A Homage to Paulus; Thomas J. J. Altizer
2. A Radical Restrained: Paul Tillich and the Death of God; Daniel J. Peterson
3. Religious Internationalism: Tillich and Radical Political Theology; Matthew Lon Weaver
4. Eschatology and Inverse Theology: Tillich and Adorno in Dialogue; Christopher C. Brittain
5. Theologies of Critique. Tillich, Schelling, Goodchild; Daniel Whistler
6. Pirating Paul Tillich, the Patriarch with the Good Ideas: Mary Daly and the Radical Tillich; Christopher Rodkey
PART II: TILLICH AND CONTEMPORARY RADICAL THEOLOGIES
7. The Irrelevance and Relevance of Paul Tillich; Michael Grimshaw
8. Changing Ontotheology: Tillich, Malabou, and the Plastic God; Jeffrey W. Robbins
9. Can there be a Theology of Disenchantment? Unbinding the Nihil with Paul Tillich; Thomas A. James
10. Depth and the Void: Tillich and Žižek on Hegel and Ontology; Clayton Crockett
11. Sovereignty and the Socialist Decision in post 9/11 America; Mark Lewis Taylor
12. Tillich's Last Horizon: Radical Theology and Religious Diversity; John Thatamanil
13. A Modified Tillichian Radical Theology and the Nature of Theological Knowledge; Richard Grigg
14. Boundaries, Places, and the Theology of Culture: Locating the Environment in Tillich's Theology of Culture; Forrest Clingermann
15. Faithless Theology. Towards a Natural Theology of Culture; Russell Re Manning