Abstract
Tillich wished to produce a system that could reaffirm the foundational truths of theology whilst remaining accessible to those receiving it in their contemporary setting. He felt that a primary role of theology was to explain the relationship between peoples’ cultural context and the core message of Christianity, and he attempted to achieve this by likening the relation of the human situation and Christianity to the relationship between ‘questions and answers’ in what he describes as the ‘method of correlation’ to bring together the message of the Christian faith with the situation in which people were to receive that message.
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Tillich, Paul: Systematic Theology Volume One (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951) p. 9.
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Tillich, Paul: Systematic Theology Volume Two (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957) p. 3.
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Tillich, STI, p. 11.
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Tillich, STI, p. 12.
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Tillich, STI, p. 14.
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Tillich, STI, p. 32.
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Tillich, STI, pp. 33–34.
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Tillich, STI, p. 34.
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Tillich, STI, p. 3.
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Tillich, STI, p. 3.
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Tillich, STI, p. 3.
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Tillich, STI, p. 40.
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Tillich, STI, p. 60.
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Tillich, STI, p. 61.
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Tillich, STI, p. 61.
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John P. Clayton, ‘Questioning, Answering and Tillich’s Concept of Correlation’ in John J. Carey (ed.) Kairos and Logos: Studies in the Roots and Implications of Tillich’s Theology (USA: Mercer University Press, 1984) p. 122.
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Tillich, Paul, The Protestant Era (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1947) Introduction xxiv.
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Tillich, The Protestant Era, Introduction xxii.
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Clayton, ‘Questioning’ in Kairos and Logos, p. 124.
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Tillich, The Protestant Era, introduction ix.
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Clayton, ‘Questioning’ in Kairos and Logos, p. 128.
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Clayton citing Tillich, ‘Questioning’ in Kairos and Logos, p. 129.
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Clayton, ‘Questioning’ in Kairos and Logos, p. 129.
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For a fuller examination of Tillich’s Method of Correlation and how it is relevant to the status of nonhuman animal in Systematic Theology, see Chap. 8, pp. 161–192.
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Tillich, STI, p. 58.
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Tillich, STI, p. 59.
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Tillich, STI, p. 59.
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Tillich, Paul, Systematic Theology Volume Three (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963) p. 3.
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Tillich, STI, p. 65. This is a trap which Tillich believes many a liberal theologian has fallen into.
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Tillich, STI, p. 65.
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Tillich, STI, p. 65.
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Tillich, STI, p. 75.
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Tillich, STI, p. 66.
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Tillich, STI, p. 67.
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Tillich, STI, p. 67.
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Tillich, STI, p. 68.
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Smith, AA. (2017). The Shape of Tillich’s System: A Methodological Introduction. In: Animals in Tillich's Philosophical Theology. The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40856-9_2
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