The Consistent Christology of Paul Tillich

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1475-3065|36|2|195-212

ISSN: 0036-9306

Source: Scottish Journal of Theology, Vol.36, Iss.2, 1983-05, pp. : 195-212

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Abstract

Tillich claimed often and vehemently that the risk of faith in Jesus as the Christ ‘lies in quite a different dimension from the risk of accepting uncertain historical facts’.1 The ultimate concern expressed in and through Christology is free from the contingencies of history and the consequent possibility of falsification. Yet many critics have accused Tillich of making covert historical assumptions in an inconsistent manner, thus failing in practice to make good his claims. I wish to defend Tillich on his own systematic grounds from such criticism, but also finally to raise the question whether his grounds are tenable.