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Winter term 2025/26: Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be
The course starts on Thursday, October 9th! (Oct 2nd is the immatriculation ceremony.) Tillich's The Courage to Be is a theological classic. In a concise book, Tillich was able to provide us with a fitting diagnosis of our times that shows our lack of the dimension of depth, which stands for awareness of our existence before God. On the basis of ideas of Tillich (and also of Jan Loffeld with his current diagnosis of religious apatheism), the seminar will ask some basic and theological questions of human existence: in how far does man need God? Is the current Western humankind failing because of its loss of the religious dimension? What are the existential questions that people currently ask? Do they need to ask existential questions, as theology and churches suggest? And where should we seek appropriate answers as theologians? What is the role of churches in our society and what can or should they offer? Literature: Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be, in: Main Works / Hauptwerke 5: Writings on Religion, Berlin - New York 1988, 141-230. or TILLICH, Paul. The courage to be. 2nd ed. New Haven ; London: Yale University Press, 2000. Paul Tillich, The God above God (1961), in: Main Works / Hauptwerke 6: Theological Writings, Berlin-New York 1987, 417–422. Paul Tillich, Systematic Theology I–III, Chicago, 1951–1963. Jan Loffeld, Wenn nichts fehlt, wo Gott fehlt, Freiburg 2024. Petr Gallus, Der Mensch zwischen Himmel und Erde, Leipzig 2007. RE MANNING, Russell. The Cambridge companion to Paul Tillich. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. TAYLOR, Mark Kline. Paul Tillich: theologian of the boundaries. London: Collins, 1987. KEGLEY, Charles W. a BRETALL, Robert W. The theology of Paul Tillich. Macmillan pbk. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1961. PAUCK, Wilhelm a PAUCK, Marion. Paul Tillich: his life & thought. Volume 1, Life. London: Collins, 1977. HUMMEL, Gert. God and Being / Gott und Sein: The Problem of Ontology in the Philosophical Theology of Paul Tillich / Das Problem der Ontologie in der Philosophischen Theologie Paul Tillichs.Contributions made to the II. International Paul Tillich Symposium held in Frankfurt 1988. / Beiträge des ... Reprint 2015. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015. ISBN 9783110853476. JENNINGS, Brach S. The courage to be: Paul Tillich's existentialist theology of the cross in relation to Martin Luther. Online. Dialog: a journal of theology. 2018, roč. 57, č. 3, s. 211-218. ISSN 0012-2033. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1111/dial.12419. CHEVALIER, Jacques M. Paul Tillich and the Courage to Be. In: The Ethics of Courage. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2023, s. 425-445. ISBN 303132742X. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32743-8_20. SCHÜSSLER, Werner. Paul Tillichs Schrift „The Courage to Be“ – ein missverstandener Bestseller: Eine kritische Analyse der Begriffe „Theismus“, „absoluter Glaube“ und „Gott über Gott. Online. Internationales Jahrbuch für die Tillich-Forschung. 2018, roč. 13, č. 1, s. 109-132. ISSN 1990-4231. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1515/iytr-2018-111. Internationales Jahrbuch für die Tillich-Forschung. 2018, roč. 13, č. 1. --- The seminar improves the work of the systematic theologian. The participants learn to manage the lecture of a more difficult, (usually) modern theological text in English within the critical discussion about previous and other possible interpretations of the author. Essential in the seminar is a joint reading of a fundamental text, usually one of time-tested monograph by a distunguished (protestant or catholic) systematic theologian of the 20th or 21st century. Each session of the seminar is led by a particular participant, who is supposed to prepare an introduction into the particular text, to ask introductory guiding questions, to moderate the discussion and, after the session, to make a final summary of „his“ or „her“ session. The students learn how to interpret a demanding theological text within a context of different language, church and culture, to apply it in a different situation with its necessary adaptations and actualizations, and to popularize it for the lay public. The goal of the seminar is to learn to express oneself in a self-standing way in both the oral and the written form. For appointing of credits, students are required to participate actively on each session and prepare a paper (about 10 pages long), which will consider and evaluate the strong and weak sides of the read text with a special respect to their own contemporary context. Last update: Beneš Ladislav, Mgr., Dr. (11.10.2025)
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For appointing of credits, students are required to participate actively on each session and prepare a paper (about 10 pages long), which will consider and evaluate the strong and weak sides of the read text with a special respect to their own contemporary context. Last update: Beneš Ladislav, Mgr., Dr. (11.10.2025)
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Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be, in: Main Works / Hauptwerke 5: Writings on Religion, Berlin - New York 1988, 141-230. Petr Gallus, Der Mensch zwischen Himmel und Erde, Leipzig 2007. Last update: Beneš Ladislav, Mgr., Dr. (11.10.2025)
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Last update: Beneš Ladislav, Mgr., Dr. (11.10.2025)
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