eschatological panentheism

Tillich, you sneaky bastard, you saved the best part for last!

I have just finished reading all of Paul Tillich's Systematic Theology, a three volumes work comprising slightly more than 900 pages. And I have only one thing to say about the merciless philosophical theological slog that the last three months of reading this thing:

THEY WERE WORTH IT FOR THE LAST 50 PAGES.

In the last 50 pages, Tillich became wonderful, vibrant and brilliant. I cannot stress enough that reading this thing without reading the last fifty pages would be to misunderstand everything Tillich wants to say, because the stuff he gets to in the last fifty pages changes the meaning of the previous 850 pages into something entirely different.

Random Rec

I have recently discovered little sticky Post-It notes made of plastic. They are AMAZING when you want to keep easy track of several concepts in a book while taking notes for later reference. I mean, right now I am keeping an eye out for "ground of being," "Method of Correlation" and "process thought" in Tillich, and I have a little colored sticky note for each concept, and it's kind of a perfect way of being able to really quickly reference things. I'm still taking notes, writing in the margins, using a colored pencil to highlight words, and now I have these little sticky tabs.

I begin to think that I will not even try to resell these books. I've done too much to them as it is . I need to keep them.