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The Unity of Life and the Kingdom of God.

Interdependence and Interaction between Individuals, Natures, and the Ground of Being in Paul Tillich’s Eschatology
  • Jari Ristiniemi
Published/Copyright: August 15, 2015
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International Yearbook for Tillich Research
From the journal International Yearbook for Tillich Research Volume 10 Issue 1

Abstract

During the last decade of his life, Tillich saw the possibility of constructing ethics and theology from below in his multidimensional view of the unity of life. His view brings together the late Plato and Aristotle: essences are potentials which the historical process actualizes and enriches both for all beings and for God as the ground of being. In his eschatology, his differential monism avoids the problems of strict teleological finalism and of a dualism between living beings and God. For Tillich, there is no unbridgeable gap between immanence and transcendence but a mutual bond of connection, interdependence and interaction. In love, the positive in creation and in history is brought into the Kingdom of God and fulfills justice for all beings.

Published Online: 2015-8-15
Published in Print: 2015-8-14

© 2015 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston

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  2. Table of Contents
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  13. Unbedingtsetzung von Bedingtem.
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  17. Tillich Bibliography
  18. Contributors List
https://doi.org/10.1515/tillich-2015-0106

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Titelei
  2. Table of Contents
  3. „Ethik des ‚Reiches Gottes‘ “
  4. Eschatologie und Ethik bei Paul Tillich
  5. La radicalité eschatologique de l’éthique et la dimension théonomique de l’autonomie.
  6. Von der Erwartung zur Utopie.
  7. The Unity of Life and the Kingdom of God.
  8. Die Ethik-Konzeption Paul Tillichs.
  9. Die politische Ethik Paul Tillichs
  10. „Wenn aber die vulkanischen Kräfte aufwachen…“
  11. Paul Tillich – ein „religiöser Atheist“?
  12. „Wir alle sind von Hause aus Nominalisten.“
  13. Unbedingtsetzung von Bedingtem.
  14. Edition
  15. An der engen Pforte der historischen Methode vorbei …
  16. Reviews
  17. Tillich Bibliography
  18. Contributors List
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