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The Courage of Liminality: Tillich and Theological Anthropology in Post-modernity

Published/Copyright: September 29, 2016
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International Yearbook for Tillich Research
From the journal International Yearbook for Tillich Research Volume 11 Issue 1

Abstract

The challenges of postmodernity have opened up new ways of engaging faith. Postmodern thought recognizes the contextual quality of religious claims. The risk of the skepticism born out of postmodernity, however, is the loss of transcendence in a perceived secular age. The theological anthropology of Paul Tillich can reawaken the significance of transcendence in human flourishing. Human life is uncertain and liminal where we live on the boundary between the secular and religious. Tillich’s work provides a framework for re-imagining the symbol of imago dei as a cipher of transcendence, and through that symbol a transcontextual narrative of liminality is born.

Published Online: 2016-9-29
Published in Print: 2016-8-22

© 2016 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Titelei
  2. Table of Contents
  3. La foi aux prises avec l’ambiguïté postmoderne : Penser avec Paul Tillich la méthode théologique
  4. “Playing Hide-and-Seek with the Frosty Monster”
  5. Le courage de la foi en postmodernité
  6. Paul Tillich und die postmoderne Kulturdebatte
  7. The Courage of Liminality: Tillich and Theological Anthropology in Post-modernity
  8. Paul Tillich, précurseur d’un oecuménisme postmoderne ?
  9. Anthropologie postmoderne et pensée tillichienne : Une confrontation instructive
  10. * * *
  11. Δι᾽ ἑνὸϛ πάντα – Tillich im Wingolf
  12. Short Article
  13. Über einige vermisste Briefe und Vorträge des jungen Tillich
  14. Edition
  15. Paul Tillich: Contemporary German Philosophy
  16. Reviews
  17. Tillich Bibliography
  18. Contributors List
https://doi.org/10.1515/tillich-2016-0106

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Titelei
  2. Table of Contents
  3. La foi aux prises avec l’ambiguïté postmoderne : Penser avec Paul Tillich la méthode théologique
  4. “Playing Hide-and-Seek with the Frosty Monster”
  5. Le courage de la foi en postmodernité
  6. Paul Tillich und die postmoderne Kulturdebatte
  7. The Courage of Liminality: Tillich and Theological Anthropology in Post-modernity
  8. Paul Tillich, précurseur d’un oecuménisme postmoderne ?
  9. Anthropologie postmoderne et pensée tillichienne : Une confrontation instructive
  10. * * *
  11. Δι᾽ ἑνὸϛ πάντα – Tillich im Wingolf
  12. Short Article
  13. Über einige vermisste Briefe und Vorträge des jungen Tillich
  14. Edition
  15. Paul Tillich: Contemporary German Philosophy
  16. Reviews
  17. Tillich Bibliography
  18. Contributors List
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