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Hardcover. 1st edition. xiii, [1], 287 p.; 23.5 cm. By secret interpretations Tillich concealed uncompromising atheism in a technically truthful way. Contents -- 1. Shaking the foundations: in search of the key, unlocking the door, the foundations crumble, saying no, the unconditional no -- 2. He who has ears: the hidden message, symbolism: the negative yes, a dialectical approach, correlation: a reinterpretation, estrangement: a doctrine of man -- 3. The God above God: 5 basic clues, reason and revelation,being and God -- 4. The symbolic Christ: Jesus versus Christ,the new being,christological dialectics, a "home stretch" recapitulation -- 5. Dialectical humanism: synthesis and the Spirit, a dialectical trinity, a philosophy of life, a philosophy of history,dialectics in review -- 6. Critics and criticism:some false starts, to worship mankind, beyond the system, summing up -- Index -- `System versus Reality. The main reason Tillich gets into somuch difficulty withhis theology of man isthat he permits his system to dictate the content of his thought. The trouble isthat Tillich's system is geared to cleverness and deception rather than to the discovery of insights about reality. As cleverness, the system attempts to execute the Grand Synthesis of theology and philosophy which holds Tillich in thrall; as deception its function is to camouflage the hidden message and thereby protect Tillich's standing in the Church. I have my doubts about what Tillich has accomplished by way of uniting theology and philosophy--and about the value of such an enterprise. The deception, it must be conceded, has been remarkably effective. But to get to the point, the system has been utterly unable to serve the quest for wisdom, an end for which it was not designed.' (p. 260 f.) VG orig. blue cloth in vg gray, price-clipped dj.