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Paul Tillich and Religious Socialism
Towards a Kingdom of Peace and Justice
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2021
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Paul Tillich and Religious Socialism: Towards a Kingdom of Peace and Justice argues that the Kingdom of God—the reign of God over all human affairs via God’s manifestations in love, power, and justice—can be fragmentarily achieved through a religious socialism that creatively integrates the early Tillich’s socialist thinking with later insights throughout Tillich’s theological career and with contemporary developments in just peacemaking. The resulting religious socialism is defined by economic justice and a recognition of the sacred reality in all human endeavors. It employs Christianity to furnish the necessary depth for warding off materialism and affirming the spiritual dimension of both labor and acquiring material goods. The unbridgeable Marxist chasm between expectation and reality is bridged through new being, already historically inaugurated in the Christhood of Jesus. New being is fundamentally oriented toward bringing justice to the poor, the disenfranchised, and the marginalized. It affirms the individual and equal value of all persons and thus, in Kantian terms, promotes a kingdom of intrinsically worthwhile ends rather than a kingdom of instrumentally worthwhile means of things.
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Copyright year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-0506-1
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-0507-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
193
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 4
Chapter One: Historical Backdrop to Tillich’s Religious Socialism No access Pages 5 - 30
Chapter Two: Politics and Ultimate Reality No access Pages 31 - 50
Chapter Three: The Idolatrous Nature of Political Romanticism No access Pages 51 - 76
Chapter Four: The Demonic Structure of Capitalism No access Pages 77 - 96
Chapter Five: The Socialist Principle of Expectation No access Pages 97 - 120
Chapter Six: Power and Ethics No access Pages 121 - 142
Chapter Seven: Socio-Economic Features of a Religious Socialist Government No access Pages 143 - 160
Chapter Eight: Building a Kingdom of Peace and Justice No access Pages 161 - 178
