Pastor Tillich: The Justification of the Doubter (Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs)

Cover\nPastor Tillich: The Justification of the Doubter\nCopyright\nDedication\nContents\nAcknowledgements\nNotes on Translations and Orthography\n1: Introduction\n	1. The justification of the doubter\n	2. Tillich scholarship\n		i. Tillich’s early biography\n		ii. Tillich’s early sermons\n		iii. Recent work on the early Tillich\n	3. Method\n	4. On the ambiguities of Tillich’s personal life\n	5. Chapter overview\n2: Justification and Doubt (1919)\n	1. Introduction\n	2. Rechtfertigung und Zweifel in 1919\n		i. Part one: The doctrine of justification from the viewpoint of the paradox\n		ii. Part two: The justification of the doubter\n			a. Critique of all apologetics (general doctrine of certainty)\n			b. Critique of Karl Heim’s apologetics of the concrete absolute\n			c. Faith as affirmation of the absolute paradox\n		iii. Part three: The absolute paradox as principle of theology and culture\n	3. Conclusion\n3: Defence, Doubt, and Gracelessness (1904–9)\n	1. Introduction\n	2. Tillich on Tillich: The autobiographical writings\n		i. Father and son\n		ii. Liberal theology\n		iii. Kähler and justification by faith\n		iv. Confessional controversy in Wingolf\n		v. The relation between theology and philosophy\n	3. Johannes Tillich and the Prussian church\n	4. Tillich from the archives\n		i. Father and son against liberal theology\n		ii. Great inner contradictions\n		iii. Historical criticism of the Bible\n		iv. Medicus and idealism\n		v. Sittlichkeit and moralism\n		vi. Kähler and Tillich\n	5. Concluding remarks\n4: Overcoming Despair (Lichtenrade 1909)\n	1. Introduction\n	2. The first sermons in Lichtenrade\n		i. Absolute repentance\n		ii. Assurance of salvation\n		iii. Assurance of the truth\n		iv. Excursus: Severity and disability\n	3. The abandoned sermon\n		i. Theology of religions and the Volkskirche\n		ii. The blaspheming of the Spirit\n	4. The new sermon\n		i. The greatest work of the Spirit\n		ii. The reversal of pharisaic thinking\n		iii. God in Christ accepts the sinner and the doubter\n	5. June sermons in Lichtenrade\n		i. Grace in weakness\n		ii. Disability, inability, and grace\n5: Schelling and History (1909–11)\n	1. Introduction\n	2. The turn to Schelling\n		i. Fritz Medicus\n		ii. Adolf Schlatter and Wilhelm Lütgert\n		iii. Overcoming Troeltsch: Preparatory theological work\n	3. The philosophical doctorate\n		i. Doubt and Schelling’s doctrine of God\n		ii. God the ironist\n		iii. Schelling’s religious anthropology\n		iv. Religion, revelation, and the sublation of doubt\n	4. Essays on Schelling and Fichte\n		i. Schelling, God, and the absolute\n		ii. Fichte and freedom\n	5. The theological licentiate\n		i. Against moralism\n		ii. Faith is no achievement\n		iii. The identity of sin and grace\n		iv. Publication politics\n	6. Certainty and the historical Jesus\n		i. Uncertainty concerning the historical Jesus\n		ii. Certainty, identity, and autonomy\n		iii. Adjusting Wilhelm Herrmann\n	7. Conclusion\n6: The Prodigal Doubter (Nauen 1911–12)\n	1. Introduction\n	2. Certainty and the law-gospeldialectic\n	3. Orthodoxy and self-righteousness\n	4. Orthodoxy and heresy\n	5. Songs of the pious in godforsakenness\n	6. Interpreting the age of doubt\n	7. The protest of faith\n	8. Concluding comments\n7: Convincing the Doubter (Moabit 1912–13)\n	1. Introduction\n	2. Church apologetics\n		i. The concept of apologetics\n		ii. Reaching the educated\n		iii. The limits of apologetics\n		iv. Apologetics in practice\n		v. Apologetics in trend\n	3. Tillich’s critique of Heim\n	4. Moabit sermons\n		i. Correlative sermons\n		ii. Saving the masses\n		iii. Reason, doubt, and assurance\n		iv. Christ and the doubter\n			a. Christ the image of God in the soul\n			b. Christ provident and intimate\n	5. Conclusion: Paradoxes of Christianity and thought\n8: Doubt and System (1913–14)\n	1. Introduction\n	2. The shape of the systematics\n		i. Apologetics\n		ii. Dogmatics\n		iii. Ethics\n	3. Truth, the absolute, and the distress of reflection\n		i. Inescapable truth\n		ii. Intuition and God the absolute\n		iii. Reflection and its distress\n	4. The absolute paradox\n		i. The paradox as principle, synthesis, and redemption\n		ii. The abstract moment: Justification\n		iii. The concrete moment: Christ\n		iv. The absolute moment\n	5. Is the systematics an ‘intellectual work’?\n		i. The uncanny similarity of structure\n		ii. The distress of reflection\n		iii. Justification in the systematics\n		iv. Anti-synthesis\n		v. What happens to doubt?\n	6. Conclusion\n9: Tillich at War (1914–18)\n	1. Introduction\n	2. Sermons for doubting soldiers\n		i. The undoubtable war\n		ii. Piety and justification\n		iii. Faith and suffering\n		iv. Friend of the doubter\n	3. Theological letters 1917–18\n		i. Nietzsche, truth, and godlessness\n		ii. Faith without God\n		iii. The absolute is an idol\n		iv. Intellectual and ethical works\n		v. Faith without objectification\n		vi. Hirsch’s submission\n		vii. Tillich’s autonomous immanence\n		viii. God as objectification of the immanence of the spirit\n		ix. God and meaning\n		x. Epilogue to the letters\n	4. Conclusion\n10: Conclusion\n	1. Developing the justification of the doubter\n		i. The grace of God\n		ii. Faith and reason\n		iii. Rejecting an intellectual work\n		iv. Doubt as a kind of faith\n		v. Tillich’s theological journey\n	2. Epilogue: Doubt and the theology of culture\nReferences\n	1. Abbreviations\n	2. The Writings of Paul Tillich\n	3. Other Primary Sources\n	4. Secondary Literature\nIndex