The Dialectic of the Holy : Paul Tillich's Idea of Judaism Within the History of Religion.

Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations and Note on the Text -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Chapter One: The Importance of Judaism for Tillich, the Context and Method -- 1.1 Key Biographical Details -- 1.1.2 Select Prior Treatments of Tillich and Judaism -- 1.2 Aryan Christianity -- 1.2.1 The Influence of the History of Religions School -- 1.3 The Use and Abuse of Judaism within the Western Tradition -- 1.3.1 German Idealism's "New Science of Hating Judaism" -- 1.3.2 Hegel's Incarnational Dialectic -- 1.4 Tillich's Method: The Dialectical History of Religion -- 1.4.1 The Dialectical Structure of Tillich's Systematic Theology -- 1.4.2 Two Types of Dialectic -- Chapter Two: Schelling's Cosmic Dialectic, the Jewish Critique of Idolatry, and Descent into Legalism -- 2.1 The Importance of Schelling for Tillich -- 2.2 The Doctrine of the Potencies -- 2.3 The Emergence of the Religious Consciousness -- 2.4 The 1910 Dissertation: Judaism and Islam ("Mohammedanism") -- 2.4.1 The Logos as the Agent of Revelation -- 2.4.2 Revelation, the Mythological Process and Idolatry -- 2.4.3 The Jewish Prophetic Transformation of Pagan Substance -- 2.4.4 The "Mantle of the Supernatural:" Jewish Legalism -- 2.4.5 Islam: The "World-Historical After Effect of Judaism" -- 2.5.1 The 1912 Dissertation: The Failures of Paganism and Judaism -- 2.5.2 Additional Support for the Continuity Between Judaism and Christianity -- Chapter Three: Jewish Prophetism as the Ontological Basis for Justice -- 3.1 World War I and Tillich's Adoption of Socialism -- 3.1.1 Other Tillich Essays on Related Topics -- 3.2 The Spirit of Capitalism -- 3.2.1 Tillich's The Religious Situation -- 3.2.2 Belief-ful Realism -- 3.2.3 Judaism as Ally to Capitalism -- 3.3 The Socialist Decision: Context, Method and Critical Principles -- 3.3.1 The Contradictions of Polytheism, or "Might Makes Right".

3.3.2 The Exile and the Elevation of Time over Space -- 3.3.3 Prophetic Transformation of the Powers of Origin -- 3.3.4 Jewish Prophetism and the "Jewish Problem" of Nationalism -- 3.4 The Socialist Decision: Expectation and the Socialist Principle -- 3.5 The Socialist Decision: Transformation of the World Order -- 3.5.1 The Transformation of Nationalism -- 3.5.2 The Transformation of "Autarky" and the Elevation of Time -- Chapter Four: The Dialectic of the Holy and the Permanent Theological Importance of Judaism -- 4.1 Existential Participation -- 4.2 Ambiguity, Guilt and Multi-Disciplinary Method -- 4.3 First Lecture: Anti-Judaism and Anti-Semitism -- 4.3.1 Christianity, Paganism and Anti-Judaism -- 4.3.2 The Churches under Hitler: The Struggle for Life and Death -- 4.4 Second Lecture: The Mirror of Jewish Prophetism -- 4.4.1 The First Structural Analogy: Space, Territorial Insecurity and Anxiety -- 4.4.2 The Second Structural Analogy: The Psychic Split, Despair, Mutual Attraction and Repulsion -- 4.4.3 Typological Thinking, Objectification, Dehumanization and the "Mirror" -- 4.5 Third Lecture: The Dialectic of the Holy and Judaism as a Perpetual "Thorn in the Flesh" -- 4.5.1 "The Holy" as the Foundation of Reality -- 4.5.2 The Continuity of Priestly and Prophetic through the Covenant -- 4.5.3 Sacramental Space: Polytheism, Imperialism and Sacral Injustice -- 4.5.4 Prophetic Time: Abraham and the Pattern of Exodus, Exile and Diaspora -- 4.5.5 Amos: The Exile and the Preservation of the Covenant -- 4.5.6 The Cross and the Prophetic Spirit in Christianity -- 4.6 Fourth Lecture and Conclusion: Theological Answers and the Search for Reconciliation -- Chapter Five: A Rational Dialectic in the Systematic Theology -- 5.1.1 ST Volume I: Typological Method -- 5.1.2 The Rational Quest for Balance -- 5.1.3 Volume I: Judaism and Trinitarian Monotheism.

5.1.4 The Prophetic Struggle -- 5.1.5. Volume I: The Paradoxes of Prophetism and of the Cross -- 5.2 ST Volume II: The Life and Death Struggle to Save the Old Testament -- 5.3 Volume III: The Purification of the Religious Consciousness -- Chapter Six: An Inclusive Dialectic -- Introduction -- 6.1 The Bampton Lectures -- 6.1.1 First Bampton Lecture: The Emergence of an Exclusive Self- Consciousness -- A. The Universal Importance of Justice -- 6.1.2 The Third Bampton Lecture: "The Holy" within an Inclusive Dialectic -- A. Dynamic Typology and Inner Drive -- B. Creative Tension and the Holy -- C. An Inclusive Dialectic -- 6.2 The Significance of the History of Religion -- 6.2.1 Dynamic Typology and the Religion of the Concrete Spirit -- Chapter Seven: The Importance of Historical Consciousness -- 7.1 The Challenge of Real Jews -- 7.2 The Impasse of Supersessionism -- 7.3 The Dualistic Metaphysics of Theological Anti-Judaism -- 7.4 The Conflict Between Historical Spirits: Amos versus Anaximander -- 7.4.1 Ideology and the Roots of Anti-Semitism -- 7.4.2 Anaximander and Striving for Self-Destruction -- 7.4.3 Amos and Creative Destruction -- Select Bibliography -- Paul Tillich Primary Sources -- Books -- Articles -- Secondary Sources -- Subject index.

Paul Tillich (1886-1965) was a thinker of international charisma and worldwide repute. His works provide important impulses for debates on theology, philosophy of religion and cultural theory. The series Tillich Research reflects on international research on this notable theologian and philosopher, the academic exploitation of his works with its range of different approaches to its reception and interpretation, as well as a diverse selection of themes and emphasis on them.

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