eschatological panentheism
Jun. 4th, 2010 04:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kitewithfishTillich, 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.
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.
