Rethinking The Courage to Be for American Culture Today
Abstract
This essay compares the cultural context for The Courage to Be with the present American context and then assesses the extent to which Tillich’s analysis is helpful in understanding and/or addressing current challenges to faith and life. Two aspects of culture that need to be addressed today are 1) the importance of our human bodies in how we live and in how we relate to others and 2) issues of justice and power. People still experience the anxieties of fate and death, doubt and meaninglessness, and guilt and condemnation, but today there is less emphasis on guilt. For some groups, a fourth anxiety of injustice and oppression dominates. American culture today is polarized politically and religiously over basic values, with people gaining courage through belonging to particular groups much more than through the courage to be as oneself. Transcendent courage participates in the power of being-itself and grounds all forms of courage, providing a religious meaning to courage and to life.
© 2018 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelei
- Table of Contents
- „Der Mut zum Sein“
- „Anxiety is finitude, experienced as one’s own finitude.“
- Glauben als Lebenskraft
- Mut und Partizipation
- Paul Tillichs Schrift „The Courage to Be“ – ein missverstandener Bestseller
- Letzte Sorge, letzte Zuversicht
- Le Courage d’être et les contextes spirituels contemporains
- Rethinking The Courage to Be for American Culture Today
- Zwischen Unausweichlichkeit und Bedeutsamkeit
- Short Articles
- Critique and Formation
- Ist das Letztgültige wirklich „ein Gegenstand neben anderen“?
- Edition
- Paul Tillich: Der Mut zum Sein
- Reviews
- Tillich Bibliography
- Contributors List
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelei
- Table of Contents
- „Der Mut zum Sein“
- „Anxiety is finitude, experienced as one’s own finitude.“
- Glauben als Lebenskraft
- Mut und Partizipation
- Paul Tillichs Schrift „The Courage to Be“ – ein missverstandener Bestseller
- Letzte Sorge, letzte Zuversicht
- Le Courage d’être et les contextes spirituels contemporains
- Rethinking The Courage to Be for American Culture Today
- Zwischen Unausweichlichkeit und Bedeutsamkeit
- Short Articles
- Critique and Formation
- Ist das Letztgültige wirklich „ein Gegenstand neben anderen“?
- Edition
- Paul Tillich: Der Mut zum Sein
- Reviews
- Tillich Bibliography
- Contributors List