Theology at the End of Culture Paul Tillich's Theology of Culture and Art - Studies in Philosophical Theology

This book is a study of Paul Tillich's (1886-1965) project of a theology of culture and art. Concentrating on Tillich's widely neglected pre-emigration writings (1910-1933), Re Manning reconstructs and defends Tillich's proposals for theology of culture as a philosophically sophisticated programme of theological engagement with culture and art. On the boundary between the extremes of liberal Christian humanism and neo-orthodox isolationism, Tillich's project is shown to be a powerful continuation of the mediatory intentions of the 'Schleiermacher-Troeltsch line' of modern Protestant theology to overcome the intolerable gap between religion and culture. This work draws heavily on Tillich's incorporation of Schelling's positive philosophy into the deep structure of this theology. Re Manning argues that Tillich's 'Idealistic/Romantic theology of mediation' provides a way through the entrenched oppositions of the divided mind of twentieth century theology to a constructive theology of cultural engagement. The book also offers an assessment of the continued relevance of Tillich's project in the situation of contemporary philosophical theology.;Beyond the dominant antithetical types of postmodern theology - Mark C Taylor's a/theology and the radical orthodoxy of John Milbank - Re Manning argues for the possibility of a Tillichian postmodern theology of culture able to engage with the spiritual situation at the end of culture.