Prophetic criticism and the rhetoric of temporality : Paul Tillich's 'Kairos' texts and Weimar intellectual politics
- 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.
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| Author: | Daniel WeidnerORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-550867 |
| URL: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1462317X.2020.1730558 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317X.2020.1730558 |
| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Parent Title (English): | Political Theology |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Place of publication: | London |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2020 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2020 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2020/07/01 |
| Tag: | Political theology; Prophecy; Religious socialism; Weimar Republic |
| GND Keyword: | Tillich, Paul; Weber, Max; Barth, Karl; Weimarer Republik; Politische Theologie; Prophetie; Religiöser Sozialismus |
| Volume: | 21 |
| Issue: | 1-2 |
| Page Number: | 19 |
| First Page: | 72 |
| Last Page: | 88 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 467349428 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
| Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
| CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin | |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |
