Rethinking The Courage to Be for American Culture Today
This essay compares the cultural context for The Courage to Be with the present American context and then assesses the extent to which Tillich’s analysis is helpful in understanding and/or addressing current challenges to faith and life. Two aspects of culture that need to be addressed today are 1)...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2018
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International yearbook for Tillich research
Year: 2018, Volume: 13, Issue: 1, Pages: 197-216 |
| RelBib Classification: | AE Psychology of religion CG Christianity and Politics CH Christianity and Society KBQ North America NCB Personal ethics ZD Psychology |
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| Summary: | This essay compares the cultural context for The Courage to Be with the present American context and then assesses the extent to which Tillich’s analysis is helpful in understanding and/or addressing current challenges to faith and life. Two aspects of culture that need to be addressed today are 1) the importance of our human bodies in how we live and in how we relate to others and 2) issues of justice and power. People still experience the anxieties of fate and death, doubt and meaninglessness, and guilt and condemnation, but today there is less emphasis on guilt. For some groups, a fourth anxiety of injustice and oppression dominates. American culture today is polarized politically and religiously over basic values, with people gaining courage through belonging to particular groups much more than through the courage to be as oneself. Transcendent courage participates in the power of being-itself and grounds all forms of courage, providing a religious meaning to courage and to life. |
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| ISSN: | 2190-7455 |
| Contains: | In: International yearbook for Tillich research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/iytr-2018-199 |