Patrice Bergeron,Fabrice Blée,Marc Dumas,Raymond Lemieux,Jean Richard,Gérard Siegwalt.

This collection moves from COVID to Kairos, engaged with the legacy of Paul Tillich. Liminal spaces reflect ambiguous transitional moments in human consciousness and culture. In early 2020, cultures and states turned inward for protection, exacerbating intertwined health, political, racial justice, and economic crises. Tillich would have understood these overlapping challenges to be heralding a kairotic moment, reflecting simultaneous crises and opportunities. The collected essays reflect on the intersections of COVID and Kairos. Authors engage numerous ethical challenges precipitated by the (...) current Kairos moment, thinking through and with Tillich. Other essays offer reflections on our cultural moment, engaging topics from public health to video games to hate speech. Reflecting on the cultural moment, this collection offers unique insight into the Tillichian legacy for the present and future. (shrink)

Résumé Cet article examine la méthode de corrélation telle qu’elle est développée par deux théologiens, le protestant Paul Tillich et le catholique Edward Schillebeeckx, sous l’angle qu’y joue l’expérience. Il montre que l’expérience y occupe une place déterminante, qu’elle y est une notion clé. En conclusion, il discute l’apport et les limites de positions insatisfaisantes et présente le théologal comme ce qui résiste à la corrélation, ce qui ouvre à un dépassement de la méthode de corrélation.This paper examines the role (...) played by the concept of experience in the method of correlation such as both theologians, Paul Tillich and Edward Schillebeeckx, brought it out. We shall see how the concept of experience is determining and becomes a keystone. We conclude by presenting the strengths and the limits of such a method and see how the “theologal” resists to it and calls us to go farther. (shrink)

If the list of the “eight evil thoughts” of the monks of the desert (Evagrius) becomes towards the end of Antiquity or the beginning of the Middle Ages, the list of the seven deadly sins (Pope Gregory the Great), the Reformation moves the cursor concerning the sins from the plural to the singular — to sin. The capital sins, including laziness, point to a state of relational rupture with God or alienation as proposed by Paul Tillich in his Systematic Theology. (...) But haven’t the upheavals engendered by modernity contributed to reduce the capital sins in favor of a more secular reappropriation of these anthropological-theological themes? Indeed, could not “laziness” become under some such circumstances, in a century singularly marked by speed and immediacy, a counterweight to keep a balance and thus avoid dehumanization, even zombification of our humanity? (shrink)

Name der Zeitschrift: International Yearbook for Tillich Research Jahrgang: 11 Heft: 1 Seiten: 43-58.

Can the exploration of new spiritual contexts in postmodernity lead us to come to terms with anxiety in new ways and, as a consequence, with courage? Three contexts bombard our fundamental vulnerability as individuals as well as our communities. Can these contextual and paradoxical anxieties send us once again to the source of the Courage to Be? Can Tillich’s proposals from the 1950s again become both fresh and relevant? It takes fundamental courage to confront these anxieties and challenges, a courage (...) which further defines our humanity. (shrink)

L’oeuvre maîtresse de Gérard Siegwalt invite le lecteur à entrer dans une expérience théologique exigeante et originale. Quelles expériences apparaissent les plus marquantes et les plus signifiantes pour l’avenir du propos théologique contemporain? Quels réflexes peut-on reprendre pour aujourd’hui?

A colloquium entitled "Paul Tillich and Paul Ricœur in dialogue" was held in Paris 2019, organized by the Association Paul Tillich d'expression française in collaboration with the Fonds Ricœur. Each of the contributions offers particular crossovers, specific explorations, comparisons favoring certain texts by the protagonists which, in a certain sense, embody snippets of dialogue that could have taken place between Tillich and Ricœur.

Marc Dumas L’objectif de cette contribution est de présenter un premier parcours réflexif de quelques révolutions que sont auteur a réalisé depuis un certain temps autour du monde de la santé et de l’univers tillichien. Le point de départ est une tension entre un système de santé en souffrance, l’éviction de la notion de salut et la présence d’approches complémentaires et alternatives à critiquer. L’oeuvre de Tillich et particulièrement ses travaux sur ce que nous pourrions nommer une théologie de la (...) santé deviennent ici les ressources du chantier de recherche à venir. (shrink)

As a theologian, the author is interested in the conditions of practicing theology in a contemporary secular context. In the face of increasingly weak institutional support, a renewed theological practice must recognize its fragility and thus learn to invent itself in a critical hermeneutic of theological difference.