Keith Ka-fu CHAN. Ed. Paul Tillich and Sino-Christian Theology (London: Routledge, 2023)

With contributors from different generations of the Chinese-speaking world, the book addresses the relevance of Paul Tillich’s thought in the Chinese cultural-political contexts.

Appropriating and transforming different themes of Tillich’s thought in the Chinese context, the contributors reframe the dialogue with Buddhism and Confucianism, religion and science, and religion and politics under the interpretation of Tillich’s ideas. The thought-provoking essays examine the intellectual potentiality or further contribution of Paul Tillich’s ideas in Sino-Christian Theology.

The book will be of interest to scholars and postgraduate students studying Paul Tillich’s thought, Chinese theology, and East-West religious dialogues.

1. Lai Pan-chiu Being and Non-Being: Paul Tillich, Buddhist–Christian Dialogue, and Sino-Christian Theology

2. Lao Jiayi

Confucianism as Religion in Tillichian Perspective

3. Ben Siu-Pun Ho

Correlating Tillich’s Legacy with the Political-Existential Situation of Present-Day China

4. Honglin Tang

Demonic and Frontier: Paul Tillich on nationalism and its significance on national identity construction in Contemporary China

5. Tao Anthony WANG

St. Thomas Aquinas and Paul Tillich on Fortitudo (Courage): With Special Reference to the Virtue of Vīrya in Buddhism

6. YANG Junjie T. C. Chao and Tillich: Paul Tillich’s Spiritual Journey in China

7. Thomas Xutong Qu The Theological Controversy between Paul Tillich and Karl Barth in 1923: A Historical and Interpretative Reconstruction

8. KUNG, Wai-han Tillich’s and Confucian Understanding of Person in Dialogue: An Emergentist Perspective

9. Keith, CHAN Ka-fu An Examination of Tillich’s and Confucian anthropocosmic understanding: An Ecological Perspective