Life as Spirit

Keith Ka-fu Chan

Published by De Gruyter 2018

Life as Spirit

A Study of Paul Tillich’s Ecological Pneumatology

Keith Ka-fu Chan

Volume 17 in the series Tillich Research

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110612752

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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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1. Introduction Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	1
2. Pneumatological Theology Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	40
3. Spirit and the World Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	72
4. Persons and Nature Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	123
5. Towards a Theonomous Technology Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	153
6. Environmental Ethics in Dialogue: Tillich, Orthodox Theology and Confucianism Requires Authentication Accessible Download PDF	191
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Theologians
Pages
- Front matter: 12
- Main content: 224
Keywords: Paul Tillich; ecological theology; pneumatology; life

eBook

Published: August 21, 2018
ISBN: 9783110612752

Hardcover

Published: August 21, 2018
ISBN: 9783110611670