Excerpt from The Theology of Paul Tillich Though the expression is subject to misinterpretation, there is a sense in which Tillich's work constitutes a kind of Protestant Summa for our time. We are aware that Professor Tillich himself (in his Systematic Theology, I, vii, 59) disclaims any intention of writing a Summa, indicating rather that he presents a system. In the very nature of the case, Protestantism can have no Summa, for the Protestant principle precludes anything like finality. Yet in a given historical situation presumably there can be a work which most fully gathers up the strands of all that is best in secular thought, and unites them with the truths of God's self-disclosure. Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin, and Schleiermacher, for instance, tried to accomplish something like this, and in some important respects the theological thought of Paul Tillich has the same marks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.