“On Healing”: Paul Tillich’s Contribution to Current Research on Resilience

This article discusses how Tillich’s psychologically informed re-interpretation of dogmatic and biblical narratives may offer ways to cope with complex experiences of adversity that are characterized by a pressing need for resilience, along with extreme difficulties in communicating meaningfully. In...

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Auteur principal: Opalka, Katharina 1985- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Brill 2021
Dans: Interdisciplinary journal for religion and transformation in contemporary society
Année: 2021, Volume: 7, Numéro: 2, Pages: 473-490
Sujets non-standardisés:B Narrativity
B Tillich
B in spite of
B Resilience
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Résumé:This article discusses how Tillich’s psychologically informed re-interpretation of dogmatic and biblical narratives may offer ways to cope with complex experiences of adversity that are characterized by a pressing need for resilience, along with extreme difficulties in communicating meaningfully. In tandem with the focus on the practical applications of Tillich’s theology, the source material comprises Tillich’s sermons (cf. The Shaking of the Foundations [1948]; The New Being [1955]; The Eternal Now [1963]). The analysis concentrates on three aspects of Tillich’s treatise on healing, namely (a) Tillich’s discussion of the healer’s capability to heal “in spite of”; (b) his understanding of “in spite of” and the connected semantics of fighting; (c) his (implicit) approach to re-examining the idea of healing as narratively mediated, which allows to further the discourse on resilience in regard to semantic representations and narrations.
ISSN:2364-2807
Contient:Enthalten in: Interdisciplinary journal for religion and transformation in contemporary society
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.30965/23642807-bja10020