TY  - JOUR
A1  - Weidner, Daniel
T1  - Prophetic criticism and the rhetoric of temporality : Paul Tillich's 'Kairos' texts and Weimar intellectual politics
T2  - Political Theology
N2  - The paper discusses Paul Tillich's changing conception of a "prophetic critique" of contemporary culture and society through the notion of a "kairos", the moment of fullfilled time. It shows how Tillich refers both to a specific notion of prophecy (developed in Max Weber's reflections on charisma) and to a concept of eschatological time (developed in Karl Barth's dialectical theology). In different texts from the 1920ies and the 1950ies, Tillich uses the idea of "kairos" for a critique of the "idols" of bourgeois culture that is both radical and urgent. However, read in their historic sequence, these texts also reveal the difficulty of upholding the urgency of such a critique over time - as a result, Tillich's notion of "kairos" becomes more and more reflexive and self critical as the possibility of prophetic critique is concerned.
KW  - Weimar Republic
KW  - Prophecy
KW  - Political theology
KW  - Religious socialism
KW  - Tillich, Paul
KW  - Weber, Max
KW  - Barth, Karl
KW  - Weimarer Republik
KW  - Politische Theologie
KW  - Prophetie
KW  - Religiöser Sozialismus
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/55086
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-550867
UR  - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1462317X.2020.1730558
SN  - 1743-1719
VL  - 21
IS  - 1-2
SP  - 72
EP  - 88
PB  - Taylor & Francis
CY  - London
ER  -