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Paul Tillich (1886-1965) war ein Denker von internationaler Ausstrahlung und weltweitem Rang. Von seinen Schriften gehen wichtige Impulse für die theologischen, religionsphilosophischen und kulturtheoretischen Debatten aus. Die Reihe Tillich Research reflektiert die internationale Forschung zu diesem namhaften Theologen und Philosophen, die wissenschaftliche Erschließung seines Werks mit jeweils ganz unterschiedlichen Zugängen zu Rezeption und Interpretation sowie einer facettenreichen Auswahl und Gewichtung der Themen.

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Paul Tillich (1886-1965) was a thinker of international charisma and worldwide repute. His works provide important impulses for debates on theology, philosophy of religion and cultural theory. The series Tillich Research reflects on international research on this notable theologian and philosopher, the academic exploitation of his works with its range of different approaches to its reception and interpretation, as well as a diverse selection of themes and emphasis on them.

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Paul Tillich is exceptional in modern theologians that his distinctive and abundant understanding of the concept of life and spirit has the potential to engage with other disciplines, such as biology, psychology, cosmology and social science; and that his ontological understanding of "life as spirit" which is so crucial in the ecological consideration, is so complex and subtle that enables powerful and critical inter-religious dialogue in environmental ethics. This book argues that, despite the fact that Tillich did not engage in ecological and environmental theology directly, his abundant personal experience of nature-mysticism and intellectual understanding of the idea of nature rooted in his Lutheran and German idealist heritages and, more importantly, his ontological-pneumatological holistic and multi-dimensional conception of unifying and differentiated reality, perfectly and organically coupled with the theonomous vision of theology of culture, nature and morality is profoundly ecologically oriented.

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Keith CHAN Ka-fu, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China.

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