Paul Tillich and His System of Paradoxical Correlation: Forging a New Way for Science and Theology Relations
Ebook
This book shows the paradoxical mode by which Christians keep their faith in the Christian message as they relate with science. It reveals how Paul Tillich's method of correlation helps us to understand how Christians interact with science without necessarily conflicting, separating, and dialoguing, and synthesizing with each other. It rules out natural theology but provides a non-eclectic theology of nature that frees Christians to be involved in science meaningfully and without undermining their faith.
“I am glad to encounter Dr. Amarkwei’s new book, Paul Tillich
and His System of Paradoxical Correlation by Wipf & Stock
Publishers. . . . I eagerly endorse the book which is, to be sure,
a sign of the double convergence of Ghana and Korea as well as
theology and science.”
—Park Hyung Gug, Hanil University and Presbyterian Theological
Seminary, Republic of Korea
“This book, written by Dr. Charles Amarkwei, who is a promising
African theologian, deeply investigates the significance of Paul
Tillich’s paradoxical correlation to such an extent as to draw its
implications for an issue on the relation between science and
theology. . . . I hope and expect that Amarkwei’s critical analysis
and elaborate argument in this book would make a great contribution
not only by extending the possibility and viability of Tillich’s
paradoxical correlation, but also by advancing further current
ongoing discussions on the relation between science and
theology.”
—Chung-Hyun Baik, Presbyterian University and Theological Seminary,
Seoul, Korea
“Paul Tillich helped to shape the tenor of theological thought in
twentieth-century Protestant Christianity. This book is one of only
a handful in which an African theologian audaciously attempts to
draw out the implications of Tillich’s thought for a context that
has developed as a major hub of world Christianity. Tillich’s
lessons on the paradoxes between faith and science as outlined here
move significantly forward an emerging interest in the study of
theology and science in Africa.”
—J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon,
Ghana
“With this work, Charles Amarkwei breaks the almost dead silence on
the relationship between science and theology in the West Africa
sub-region. I have no doubt that this book will awaken discussions
on the important subject of science and theology that passes us by
in theological constructions (and reconstructions) within the West
Africa sub-region.”
—Joseph Obiri Yeboah Mante, General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church of Ghana
- Title: Paul Tillich and His System of Paradoxical Correlation: Forging a New Way for Science and Theology Relations
- Authors: Charles Amarkwei, Koo Choon-Seo
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 2020
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781725258815, 9781725258792, 9781725258808, 1725258811, 172525879X, 1725258803
- Resource ID: LLS:9781725258815
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T20:19:45Z
Charles Amarkwei is Lecturer of Systematic Theology at the Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon, Ghana. He is also minister of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana. His interest is faith interpretation in the context of the world today and in particular Africa.