Author:
Stone, Ronald H. author.
ImprintMacon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, 2021.
Imprint2021
Description228 pages ; 23 cm.
Note:Includes bibliography (pages 217-221) and index.
Note:Ethics and morals -- Conversations in religious socialist circles -- Tillich and Niebuhr on the Jewish question -- Protestantism and Marxism -- Resistance to the Third Reich -- Critique of John F. Dulles' Commission on a Just and Durable Peace -- Power in the context of American empire -- Religious socialist and liberation perspectives on justice -- Tillich's "kairos" and its trajectory -- Tillich, Nieburh, and Bennett on the bomb -- Ethics and the encounter with other religions -- Late ethics : critique and projection.
Note:This first book-length study of Paul Tillich's ethics is drawn from research in the Harvard Archives and fifty years of teaching Tillich's social-political thought. In Ronald H. Stone's fourth work on Tillich's philosophy the ethic is examined from the early ontological to socialist ethics to his own final principled-situationalist ethic in late life. Unique to this study is the in-depth inquiry into Tillich's courageous social action correlated with his own philosophical-theological ethic. The book moves from an early socialist rally in Berlin, through the wars, dialogue with John Foster Dulles about post-war planning, debates about nuclear deterrence, to Buddhist Christian dialogue. The author's own preference for the late ethic of the philosopher informs the inquiries into the earlier radical Tillich. The conclusion provides a synthesis of the vast sources of Tillich's ethics and presents twelve themes summarizing sources and future resources for ethics from his life's work.
