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A History of Christian Thought, from Its Judaic and Hellenistic Origins to Existentialism »

Authors: Paul Tillich, Carl E. Braaten
ISBN-13: 9780671214265, ISBN-10: 0671214268
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
Date Published: November 1972
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Paul Tillich

Book Synopsis

In A History of Christian Thought, Paul Tillich has accomplished the supremely difficult feat of creating a work at once brilliantly authoritative and comprehensive, while remaining clear and uncluttered by scholarly annotation and debate. Originally delivered as lectures at the Union Theological Seminary and at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, this edition has been superbly edited by Carl E. Braaten of the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago. From the "preparation for Christianity" implicit in the kairos and the Mystery Religions to the individualism of Bultmann, Troeltsch, and Barth, Professor Tillich guides the reader through the fascinating history of Christian thought with a confidence and clarity of presentation only a great scholar and teacher possesses.

	Preface to the Touchstone Edition	xi
	Paul Tillich and the Classical Christian Tradition	xiii
Part I	Introduction: The Concept of Dogma	xxxvi
I	The Preparation for Christianity	1
A	The Kairos	1
B	The Universalism of the Roman Empire	2
C	Hellenistic Philosophy	3
1	Skepticism	3
2	The Platonic Tradition	6
3	The Stoics	7
4	Eclecticism	9
D	The Inter-Testamental Period	9
E	The Mystery Religions	13
F	The Method of the New Testament	14
II	Theological Developments in the Ancient Church	17
A	The Apostolic Fathers	17
B	The Apologetic Movement	24
1	The Christian Philosophy	27
2	God and the Logos	29
C	Gnosticism	33
D	The Anti-Gnostic Fathers	37
1	The System of Authorities	38
2	The Montanist Reaction	40
3	God the Creator	41
4	The History of Salvation	43
5	Trinity and Christology	46
6	The Sacrament of Baptism	48
E	Neo-Platonism	50
F	Clement and Origen of Alexandria	55
1	Christianity and Philosophy	55
2	The Allegorical Method	57
3	The Doctrine of God	59
4	Christology	61
5	Eschatology	63
G	Dynamic and Modalistic Monarchianism	64
1	Paul of Samosata	65
2	Sabellius	66
H	The Trinitarian Controversy	68
1	Arianism	69
2	The Council of Nicaea	71
3	Athanasius and Marcellus	73
4	The Cappadocian Theologians	76
I	The Christological Problem	79
1	The Antiochean Theology	80
2	The Alexandrian Theology	84
3	The Council of Chalcedon	86
4	Leontius of Byzantium	88
J	Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite	90
K	Tertullian and Cyprian	98
L	The Life and Thought of Augustine	103
1	The Development of Augustine	104
2	Augustine's Epistemology	111
3	The Idea of God	115
4	The Doctrine of Man	119
5	Philosophy of History	121
6	The Pelagian Controversy	122
7	The Doctrine of the Church	131
III	Trends in the Middle Ages	134
A	Scholasticism, Mysticism, Biblicism	135
B	The Scholastic Method	137
C	Trends in Scholasticism	140
1	Dialectics and Tradition	140
2	Augustinianism and Aristotelianism	141
3	Thomism and Sootism	141
4	Nominalism and Realism	142
5	Pantheism and Church Doctrine	144
D	The Religious Forces	145
E	The Medieval Church	149
F	The Sacraments	154
G	Anselm of Canterbury	158
H	Abelard of Paris	167
I	Bernard of Clairvaux	172
J	Joachim of Floris	175
K	The Thirteenth Century	180
L	The Doctrines of Thomas Aquinas	192
M	William of Ockham	198
N	German Mysticism	201
O	The Pre-Reformers	203
IV	Roman Catholicism from Trent to the Present	210
A	The Meaning of Counter-Reformation	210
B	The Doctrine of Authorities	211
C	The Doctrine of Sin	212
D	The Doctrine of Justification	213
E	The Sacraments	215
F	Papal Infallibility	218
G	Jansenism	221
H	Probabilism	223
I	Recent Developments	224
V	The Theology of the Protestant Reformers	227
A	Martin Luther	227
1	The Breakthrough	227
2	Luther's Criticism of the Church	234
3	His Conflict with Erasmus	237
4	His Conflict with the Evangelical Radicals	239
5	Luther's Doctrines	242
a	The Biblical Principle	242
b	Sin and Faith	245
c	The Idea of God	247
d	The Doctrine of Christ	249
e	Church and State	251
B	Huldreich Zwingli	256
C	John Calvin	262
1	The Majesty of God	262
2	Providence and Predestination	264
3	The Christian Life	270
4	Church and State	272
5	The Authority of Scripture	274
VI	The Development of Protestant Theology	276
A	The Period of Orthodoxy	276
1	Reason and Revelation	278
2	The Formal and Material Principles	280
B	Pietism	283
C	The Enlightenment	287
Part II	Introduction: Problem and Method	297
I	Oscillating Emphases in Orthodoxy, Pietism, and Rationalism	305
A	The Period of Orthodoxy	305
B	The Reaction of Pietism against Orthodoxy	311
C	The Rise of Rationalism	313
II	The Enlightenment and Its Problems	320
A	The Nature of Enlightenment	320
1	The Kantian Definition of Autonomy	320
2	Concepts of Reason	325
a	Universal Reason	326
b	Critical Reason	327
c	Intuitive Reason	328
d	Technical Reason	329
3	The Concept of Nature	330
4	The Concept of Harmony	332
B	The Attitude of the Enlightened Man	341
1	His Bourgeois Character	341
2	His Ideal of a Reasonable Religion	342
3	His Common-sense Morality	344
4	His Subjective Feeling	348
C	Intrinsic Conflicts of Enlightenment	349
1	Cosmic Pessimism	350
2	Cultural Vices	352
3	Personal Vices	353
4	Progress Based on Immorality	355
D	The Fulfillers and Critics of Enlightenment	356
1	Rousseau, The French Revolution, and Romanticism	356
2	Hume, The History of Religion, and Positivism	357
3	Kant, Moral Religion, and Radical Evil	360
III	The Classic-Romantic Reaction against the Enlightenment	367
A	Lessing, Historical Criticism, and the Rediscovery of Spinoza	367
B	The Synthesis of Spinoza and Kant	370
C	The Nature of Romanticism	372
1	The Infinite and Finite	372
2	The Emotional and the Aesthetic Elements in Romanticism	378
3	The Turn to the Past and the Valuation of Tradition	379
4	The Quest of Unity and Authority	382
5	The Negative and the Demonic in Romanticism	383
D	The Classical Theological Synthesis: Friedrich Schleiermacher	386
1	The Background of Schleiermacher's Thought	388
2	His Concept of Religion as Feeling	391
3	His Positivistic Definition of Theology	398
4	His Interpretation of Christianity	405
E	The Universal Synthesis: Georg W. F. Hegel	410
1	The Greatness and the Tragic Hybris of Hegel's System	411
2	The Synthesis of God and Man (Mind and Person)	414
3	The Synthesis of Religion and Culture (Thought and Imagination)	419
4	The Synthesis of State and Church	424
5	Providence, History, and Theodicy	426
6	The Christ as Reality and Symbol	430
7	Eternity against Immortality	431
IV	The Breakdown of the Universal Synthesis	432
A	The Split in the Hegelian School	432
1	The Historical Problem: Strauss and Baur	423
2	The Anthropological Problem: Ludwig Feuerbach	435
B	Schelling's Criticism of Hegel	437
C	The Religious Revival and Its Theological Consequences	448
1	The Nature of the European Revival	449
2	The Theology of Repristination	453
3	Natural Science and the Fight over Darwinism	454
D	Kierkegaard's Existential Theology	458
1	Kierkegaard's Criticism of Hegel	460
2	Ethical Existence and the Human Situation (Anxiety, Despair)	462
3	The Nature of Faith (The Leap and Existential Truth)	464
4	Criticism of Theology and Church	472
E	Political Radicalism and its Theological Significance	476
1	The Bourgeois Radicals	477
2	Marx's Relation to Hegel and Feuerbach	478
3	Marx's View of the Human Situation (Alienation)	480
4	Marx's Doctrine of Ideology and His Attack on Religion	481
5	Marx's Political Existentialism	484
6	The Prophetic Element in Marx	485
F	Voluntarism and the Philosophy of Life	487
1	Schopenhauer's Idea of the Will	488
2	Nietzsche's Idea of Will-To-Power	493
3	Nietzsche's Doctrine of Resentment	494
4	The "Death of God" and the New Ideal of Man	497
V	New Ways of Mediation	504
A	Experience and the Biblical Message	506
1	The Erlangen School	506
2	Martin Kahler	509
B	The "Back to Kant" Movement	511
C	Adolf von Harnack	515
D	Miscellaneous Movements in Theology	520
1	The Luther-Renaissance	520
2	Biblical Realism	520
3	Radical Criticism	521
4	Rudolf Bultmann	523
5	The History-of-Religions Approach	524
6	Ernst Troeltsch	526
7	Religious Socialism	530
8	Karl Barth	535
9	Existentialism	539
	Index of Names	543
	Index of Subjects	547

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