The Theology of Paul Tillich: Contexts and Key Issues

THE THEOLOGY OF PAUL TILLICH examines Tillich’s main theological work, the three-volume Systematic Theology, against the background of Tillich’s developing theological thought since his studies around 1900. While the Systematic Theology emerged from lectures Tillich gave at Union Theological Seminary from 1936 onwards, his lectures on ＂Advanced Problems in Systematic Theology＂ take up considerations that go back to his first drafts of a systematic theology from 1913 and his dogmatic lectures from Germany in the 1920s. The Systematic Theology that Tillich published in the U.S. cannot, therefore, be understood without including his German dogmatic drafts, an area of Tillich research that has previously been underrepresented in English scholarship. Danz offers a prologue and an epilogue resulting in a concise introduction to Paul Tillich’s thought in the context of twentieth-century Protestant theology and a clear direction for responsible appropriations of Tillich’s theology today.

Christian Danz is professor of Systematic Theology and Religious Studies at the Protestant Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna. He studied Protestant Theology at the University of Jena and is president of the German Paul Tillich Society. Danz has published several books about Paul Tillich, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, dogmatics, philosophy of religions, and theology of religions.