Paul Tillich: His Life and Thought

by Wilhelm Pauck, Marion Pauck

Overview

This book offers a moving tribute to one of the twentieth century's most seminal philosophers and theologians, Paul Tillich. In fact, it is widely accepted as the standard biography for Tillich. A soberly objective portrait, it was supported by Tillich himself, who hoped that the full telling of his story would set in context its unconventional aspects (as told in books by Hannah Tillich and Rollo May). Wilhelm and Marion Pauck have recreated the many-sided "Paulus" in all his greatness and humanness. Tracing the development of Tillich's thought alongside the unfolding of his life in Germany and the United States, the authors have provided an excellent model of biographical research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781725235137
Publisher:	Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date:	02/27/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	360
Sales rank:	520,538
File size:	54 MB
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About the Author

Wilhelm Pauck (1901-81) studied with Harnack and Troeltsch at the University of Berlin and became the first foreign student at the University of Chicago in 1925. He joined the faculty in 1926 and was made full professor of Church History in 1931. After twenty-seven years at the University of Chicago, he taught at Union Theological Seminary in New York. After retirement in 1967, he taught at Vanderbilt University and at Stanford University.

Marion Hausner Pauck was born in New York City in 1928. She studied at Friends Seminary, Barnard College, and Union Theological Seminary. She earned an MA and studied for a ThD, but then accepted a position at Oxford University Press in New York, where she worked for ten years as editor of religious books. She resigned in order to do research on the biography of Paul Tillich. She has lectured in the United States and western Europe on Reinhold Niebuhr, Wilhelm Pauck, and Paul Tillich.
Wilhelm Pauck (1901-81) studied with Harnack and Troeltsch at the University of Berlin and became the first foreign student at the University of Chicago in 1925. He joined the faculty in 1926 and was made full professor of Church History in 1931. After twenty-seven years at the University of Chicago, he taught at Union Theological Seminary in New York. After retirement in 1967, he taught at Vanderbilt University for five years, and at Stanford University. His books include From Luther to Tillich: The Reformers and Their Heirs and Paul Tillich: His Life and Thought, the latter of which was co-authored with his wife, Marion Pauck.
Marion Hausner Pauck was born in New York City in 1928. She studied at Friends Seminary, Barnard College, and Union Theological Seminary. She earned an M.A. and studied for a ThD, but then accepted a position at Oxford University Press, New York, for ten years as editor of religious books. She resigned in order to do research on the biography of Paul Tillich. She has lectured in the United States and western Europe on Reinhold Niebuhr, Wilhelm Pauck, and Paul Tillich.

Table of Contents

Preface for the 2014 Edition iii

Original Preface v

1 Dreaming Innocence (1886-1914)

His Father's House 1

Outside the Enchanted Garden 16

Early Freedom 29

2 The Turning Point: World War I (1914-1918) 40

3 Between Two Worlds (1919-1924)

Teacher, Theoretician 57

Author, Journalist 65

Religious Socialist 67

Spiritual Breakthrough 75

Creative Chaos 79

4 Splendid Isolation (1924-1933)

Struggle to Survive 94

Dance and the Demonic 98

Early Fame 110

Encounter with Tyranny 123

5 Beneficial Catastrophe (1933-1939)

A Second Death 139

Shelter from the Storm 159

An Ear to the Ground 177

6 A Bridge to the World (1939-1955)

War and Peace 196

Return to Germany 206

Harvest Time 218

The Systematic Theology 232

7 The Ambiguity of Fame (1955-1965)

The Crest of the Wave 246

World Traveler 258

Illness and Death 272

A Chronology of the Life of Paul Tillich 287

Abbreviations 291

Notes 292

Index 330