Paul Tillich and Asian Religions

Ka-fu Keith Chan, Yau-nang William Ng

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9783110493641
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Chinese History

This volume investigates Paul Tillich's relationship to Asian religions and locates Tillich in a global religious context. It appreciates Tillich's heritage within the western and eastern religious contexts and explores the possibility of global religious-cultural understanding through the dialogue of Tillich's thought and East-West religious-cultural matrix.

Index of Subjects

• Agape (caritas) 1f., 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
• apophasis, 1,
• Being-itself 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8f.
• Christianity 1f., 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7f., 8, 9, 10f., 11, 12, 13, 14f., 15f., 16f., 17, 18, 19f., 20, 21, 22, 23f., 24, 25, 26, 27, 28
• Confucianism 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10f., 11f., 12, 13f., 14, 15, 16, 17f., 18, 19
• Correlation 1, 2, 3, 4f., 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
• Cosmopolis 1
• Dharma 1, 2, 3, 4
• emptiness 1, 2, 3f., 4, 5, 6, 7f., 8, 9, 10
• Environmental ethics 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
• Eros 1f., 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9f., 10, 11, 12f., 13
• existentialism 1
• Gehalt 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• God 1, 2f., 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10f., 11, 12, 13f., 14, 15, 16f., 17f., 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29f., 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40
• Great man 1, 2, 3
• Hua-yen Buddhism 1, 2
• Internet 1, 2, 3
• Lotus-birth 1, 2, 3, 4f., 5, 6f.
• Love 1, 2, 3, 4f., 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11f., 12, 13f., 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
• Mādhyamika 1, 2, 3
• Māhayāna Buddhism 1, 2, 3
• Metalogical 1, 2, 3, 4
• Microcosms 1f.
• Moral Cultivation 1
• Nefertum 1
• Nonbeing 1f., 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• Nothingness 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
• onto-theology 1, 2, 3f.
• Peace 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6f., 7, 8f., 9, 10
• Phenomenology 1, 2, 3
• Philia 1, 2f., 3, 4, 5f., 6f., 7, 8
• Pure Land Buddhism 1, 2f., 3f., 4, 5, 6
• Qi (vital energies) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6f., 7f.
• Religious Ethics 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• Sacrament (sacramentality) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Sciences 1f., 2, 3f., 4, 5
• sincerity (Cheng, 誠) 1, 2, 3
• Spirit, pneumatology 1f., 2f., 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10f., 11, 12, 13f., 14, 15f., 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24f., 25
• Spirituality 1f., 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
• Symbol 1, 2, 3, 4, 5f., 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15f., 16, 17, 18f., 19f., 20
• the ground of being 1, 2f., 3, 4f., 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
• Topos 1, 2, 3
• Transformation 1, 2, 3f., 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10f., 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18f., 19, 20f., 21, 22f., 23, 24f., 25
• Typology 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Ultimate Concern 1, 2, 3, 4f., 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11f., 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25
• Ultimate reality 1, 2, 3f., 4, 5, 6, 7f., 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17f.
• Virtue ethics 1, 2f., 3

Endnotes

1 A few exceptions are Robison B. James, Tillich and World Religions (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 2003) and John J. Thatamanil, The Immanent Divine: God, Creation, and the Human Predicament (Minneapolis, Minn.: Fortress Press, 2006).

2 Pan-chiu, Lai, Towards a Trinitarian Theology of Religions: A Study of Paul Tillich’s Thought (Kampen: Kok Pharos, 1991).

3 For the dialogue between Tillich and Hisamatsu Shin-ichi and some of his lectures on the topic of the encounter of world religions, see Tillich The Encounter of Religions and Quasi-Religions. Ed. Terence Thomas (Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 1970), 75–170. For a general analysis and interpretation of Tillich and his dialogue with Buddhism, see Marc Boss, “Tillich in Dialogue with Japanese Buddhism: a paradigmatic illustration of his approach to inter-religious conservation,” in The Cambridge Companion to Paul Tillich, Ed. Russell Re Manning (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 254–272.

4 The documents about Tillich’s trip to Japan were later published. See Tomoaki Fukai, Ed. Paul Tillich – Journey to Japan in 1960 (Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2013).

5 The Bampton Lectures were published in book form as Tillich, Christianity and the Encounter of World Religions (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1963).

6 The title of the lecture was “The Protestant Principle and the Encounter of World Religions.” This information is from, Tillich, The Encounter of Religions and Quasi-Religions.

7 The question of whether Tillich delivered something “new” in his lecture “The Significance of the History of Religions for the Systematic Theologian” is open to debate. Mircea Eliade clearly believed that he had when he commented “ … In the course of that superb and moving lecture, Prof. Tillich declared that, had he time, he would write a new Systematic Theology oriented toward, and in dialogue with, the whole history of religions … At a certain moment during our joint seminar, I thought that Paul Tillich was in the process of elaborating a theology of History of Religions. But very soon I realized that his mind was working in another direction. What he was accomplishing in our unforgettable evenings was a renewal of his own Systematic Theology.” See, M. Eliade, “Paul Tillich and the History of Religions,” in The Future of Religions. Ed. J. C. Brauer (New York: Scribner’s Son, 1966), 31–33. (Emphasies are author’s).

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Acknowledgments
• Table of Contents
• Paul Tillich and Asian Religions
• Tillich’s Two Methods in Context: Some Implications for Interreligious Understanding
• Tillich’s Concept of Ultimate Concern and Buddhist-Christian Dialogue
• Ultimate Reality: A Comparative Study of Kitaro Nishida’s concept of Nothingness and Paul Tillich’s concept of God
• When the Ground of Being Encounters Emptiness: Tillich and Buddhism
• Tillich and Asian Religious Symbol: A Comparative Study of Lotus-birth
• A Comparative Study of St. Thomas Aquinas’s and Paul Tillich’s Ideas of Love: Integration with the Chinese Confucian Idea of Love
• Paul Tillich and Classical Confucianism on Religious Ethics
• Paul Tillich and Zhāng Zài
• Pneumatological Sacramentality and Cosmic Humanity
• List of Contributors
• Index of Names
• Index of Subjects