Love, Power and Justice: Ontological Analyses and Ethical Applications (Galaxy Books)
Tillich, Paul,
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Paperback. Series: Galaxy Books. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB. Dimension: 140 x 217 x 8. Weight in Grams: 178.
This book presents Paul Tillich at his very best--brief, clear, stimulating, provocative. Speaking with understanding and force, he makes a basic analysis of love, power, and justice, all concepts fundamental in the mutual relations of people, of social groups, and of humankind to God. His concern is to penetrate to the essential, or ontological foundation of the meaning of each of these words and thus save them from the vague talk, idealism, cynicism, and sentimentality with which they are usually treated. The basic unity of love, power, and justice is affirmed and described in terms that are ... Read more
This book presents Paul Tillich at his very best--brief, clear, stimulating, provocative. Speaking with understanding and force, he makes a basic analysis of love, power, and justice, all concepts fundamental in the mutual relations of people, of social groups, and of humankind to God. His concern is to penetrate to the essential, or ontological foundation of the meaning of each of these words and thus save them from the vague talk, idealism, cynicism, and sentimentality with which they are usually treated. The basic unity of love, power, and justice is affirmed and described in terms that are ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1960
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Number of pages
140
Condition
New
Series
Galaxy Books
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195002225
SKU
V9780195002225
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99-14
Reviews for Love, Power and Justice: Ontological Analyses and Ethical Applications (Galaxy Books)
"One of the most thoughtful analyses of a basic problem of Christian ethics which we have had in our day."
Reinhold Niebuhr "Tillich...is one among the few leading Christian theologians who have begun to write in a provocative and fresh way in areas immediately relevant to the problem of ethics."
Philosophical Review
Reinhold Niebuhr "Tillich...is one among the few leading Christian theologians who have begun to write in a provocative and fresh way in areas immediately relevant to the problem of ethics."
Philosophical Review