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During the course of his career as a Christian theologian, Paul Tillich struggled to understand and state clearly the relationship between theology and philosophy. Tillich's conception of philosophy was profoundly shaped by the vision of classical Greek thought in which philosophy is the detached search of the thinker for the objective, universal, immutable, and neccessary object of thought.Theology, in contrast to the detached thinking of philosophy. Tillich argued, is existential thinking, answering the question of being philosophy raises. After a close analysis of Tillich's attempt to relate philosophy and theology as detached and existential thinking, this study concludes that Tillich is unable to sustain this distinction and cannot be understood as an existential theologian.

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Ferell's work will find a ready audience in theological libraries around the worl. It is a fine work. (The Reader's Review)

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The Author: Donald R. Ferrell holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA. He taught Philosophy and Religion at Doane College, Crete, Nebraska before beginning his training in 1984 in Jungian psychoanalysis at the C.G. Jung Institute, New York City. He is now a Jungian Analyst in private practice in New York City and Montclair, New Jersey and a member of the psychotherapy staff of the Montclair Counseling Center. He lives in Montclair with his wife,Joanna Mintzer; his daughter, Ariel; his cat, Moses; and his Akita, Almost Heaven.

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