B u l l e t i n of The North American Paul Tillich Society Volume XXXI, Number 4 Fall 2005 Religious Studies Department Santa Clara University 336 Bannan Hall Santa Clara, CA 95053 PHILOSOPHY Editor: Frederick J. Parrella, Secretary-Treasurer, NAPTS CULTURE THEOLOGY Telephone: 408.554.4714 FAX: 408.554.2387 Email: [email protected] Website: www.NAPTS.org In this issue: Annual NAPTS Meeting: Schedule and Banquet Information Report of the Tillich Collected Works Project Committee “Paul Tillich and Capital Punishment: The Meaning of Power” by Anne Marie Reijnen On the Calendar ___________________________________________________________________________________ Annual Meeting of the North Nerve? American Paul Tillich Society Robison James, University of Richmond The following schedule includes three parts: (1) ses- Symbol Early and Late: Continuity and sions of the NAPTS on Friday, November 18, 2005; Discontinuity between the German and (2) information about the annual banquet on Friday American Tillich night; (3) the schedule of the American Academy of Religion Group, “Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion Stephen Murray, Skidmore College and Culture.” Paul Tillich and the Wrath of God Bring your Bulletin to the meeting with you for handy reference. Locations are subject to change. NAPTS Sessions 11:00 AM – 1:15 PM (A18–9) And Banquet Loews Philadelphia Hotel Commonwealth C Friday, November 18, 2005 Theme: The Early Tillich Terry O’Keeffe, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland 9:00 – 10:45 AM (A18–8) Presiding Loews Philadelphia Hotel Jean Richard, University of Laval Commonwealth A2 Theme: Tillich on Symbolism Philosophy of History in Tillich’s Early Writings Doris Lax, University of Heidelberg Christopher Rodkey, Drew University The Tillich of the Years 1911-1913 Presiding Christian Danz, Institute of Systematic Theology, Donald Dreisbach, Northern Michigan University University of Vienna Tillich’s Symbols and Christology: A Failure of Bulletin of the North American Paul Tillich Society Volume 31, number 4 Fall 2005 2 The Influence of Schelling's Philosophy of Annual Banquet (A18–109) History on Paul Tillich's Early Theology of 7:00 – 10:00 pm History Sotto Varalli, Booth Room 231 South Broad Street Matthew Lon Weaver, University of Pittsburgh Religion and Nationalism: Tillich’s First World Our distinguished guest speaker: War Chaplaincy Sermons Ronald H. Stone of the University of Pittsburgh Address: “Reinie and Paulus: Allied Public Theolo- gians.” The cost of the banquet is $50 and may be paid in 2:00 – 3:45 PM (A18–52) advance or at the banquet. If you pay at the banquet, Loews Philadelphia Hotel please bring a check with the exact cost of the ban- Commonwealth A2 quet with you. Theme: Tillich and Religious Knowledge Please make reservations by contacting: John Thatamanil, Vanderbilt University Prof. Frederick Parrella Presiding Religious Studies Department Mary Ann Stenger, University of Louisville Santa Clara University Experience’s Role in Religious Knowledge Santa Clara, CA 95053 David H. Nikkel, University of North Carolina at 408-554-4714 Pembroke <[email protected]> The Mystical Formation of Paul Tillich Tabea Rösler, Princeton Theological Seminary Saturday, November 19, 2005 “You Never See with the Eyes Only”: Reconfiguring Paul Tillich’s Concept of 7:00 – 8:30 AM (A19–31) Personhood Philadelphia Marriott Downtown Room 304 4:00 – 6:30 PM (A18–108) North American Paul Tillich Society Board of Loews Philadelphia Hotel Directors Meeting Commonwealth A2 Theme: Paul Tillich and Public Theology Matthew Lon Weaver, University of Pittsburgh, 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM (A19–35) Presiding Philadelphia Marriott Downtown Laura Thelander, Princeton Theological Seminary Room 306 Tillich’s Ecclesiology as a Source for Public North American Paul Tillich Society Annual Theology Business Meeting Matthew Lon Weaver, President Jeffrey Keuss, Seattle Pacific School of Theology Presiding Unmoving Movement: Evangelical Worship AAR Group after the “Emerging Church” and Neo- Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, Correlational Theology and Culture Todd Mei, University of Kent at Canterbury Saturday, November 19, 2005 Paul Tillich and the Ontological Foundation of Freedom and Destiny 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM (A19-74) Convention Center 104 Thomas Bandy, Guelph, Ontario Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture “Is That a Prayer?” The Possibility of Worship Group and Theology and Continental Philosophy in Tillich’s Theology of Culture and the Reality Group of Worship in Postmodern Mission Theme: Interrogating Ontotheology: Tillich, Hei- degger, Marion, and Caputo Mary Ann Stenger, University of Louisville North American Paul Tillich Society Presiding Bulletin of the North American Paul Tillich Society Volume 31, number 4 Fall 2005 3 Russell Manning, University of Cambridge Guy Hammond, Virginia Tech Emeritus Beyond Being: Tillich, Marion, and Caputo on Does the Road of Providence Lead to Freedom? Why God Does Not Exist George W. Bush, Paul Tillich, and the Theology of History Martin Gallagher, University of Kansas Tillich and Heidegger on Being Sunday, November 20 2005 Mario Costa, Drew University God-Less Thinking: The Question of Onto- 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM (A20-124) Theology in Heidegger and Tillich Convention Center 106B Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Anthony J. Godzieba, Villanova University Group Responding Theme: God, Being, and God beyond Being Robison B. James, University of Richmond, Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond Saturday, Saturday, November 19, 12005 Presiding 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM (A19-124) John J. Thatamanil, Vanderbilt University Convention Center 104B Why Tillich Is Not (Just) an Ontotheologian: Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Tillich's Indebtedness to Apophatic Theology Group Theme: Public Theology and Democracy Lois Malcolm, Luther Seminary Darlene Fozard Weaver, Villanova University Mystical and Prophetic: Tillich's Theology of Presiding the God beyond God Reconsidered Marc Krell, University of Arizona Constructing a Public Theology: Tillich and John C. M. Starkey, Oklahoma City University Buber's Movement beyond Protestant and God, Being, Tillich, and Neville Jewish Boundaries in Weimar Germany John D. Caputo, Syracuse University Jonathan Rothchild, Loyola Marymount University Responding Confronting the Powers: Tillich, Stout, and West on Democratic Principles and Procedures AAR Group Business Meeting Loye Ashton, Millsaps College Presiding: Christofascism in America: A Tillichian Robison B. James, University of Richmond, Baptist Analysis of Christian Reconstructionism Theological Seminary at Richmond Mary Ann Stenger, University of Louisville lich Archive, housed in the Andover-Harvard Li- brary at Harvard Divinity School. We are grateful to Bill Crout who kindly arranged for us to stay in Report of the Tillich Collected Lowell House, just outside Harvard Yard, and with Works Project Committee whom we enjoyed sharing several meals with during Dear Colleagues, our stay. Our work went well, as we shared different areas of in-depth knowledge of Tillich’s works, and At its annual meeting in November, 2004, the we were able to lay out ten 600-750-page volumes, Society appointed Mary Ann Stenger Chair of the based on a chronological organization and a prelimi- Tillich Collected Works Project (TCWP). Mary Ann nary effort to be inclusive of most writings. We did asked Fred Parrella, Ron Stone, John Thatamanil, the initial planning for at least two more volumes. and me, Sharon Burch, to constitute a work group. We created an the outline of the materials that In June of 2005, Mary Ann convened a meeting we know will be included in the volumes. We also of the work group in Cambridge, Massachusetts. have a group of selected manuscripts to translate or Although John Thatamanil and Ron Stone were not check. For example, there were handwritten drafts in able to come, Fred Parrella and I joined her for four the Archive boxes that may be the initial text of arti- days of productive work with material from the Til- cles later assigned a title and published. In addition, Bulletin of the North American Paul Tillich Society Volume 31, number 4 Fall 2005 4 there were typescripts that could be the text for an Additional note from Sharon Burch article that appeared in this collection or that one. on her work in investigating We have taken on the task of determining if these a specific text drafts are identical to the published text or were ed- Our work in Cambridge this summer consisted ited before publication. A number of drafts, both of digging through several extensive bibliographies. handwritten and typed, are undated. Archivists have We found ourselves sometimes at a loss to identify organized them by assigning dates arrived at through the provenance of a document. There were a number educated guess work. We have decided to do all that of articles listed that were short, sometimes less than we can to confirm their chronological place by as- a page. Often we had no context to help us deter- sessing the thrust of the scholarship, language of mine how important this comment might be, what it composition, and our general knowledge of the Til- pertained to and how it related to the body of Til- lich corpus. lich’s work. We worked pretty much non-stop for the four Each of us took home a number of citations to investigate. One that ended up in my pile was enti- tled “Was Soll Mit Deutschland Geschehen?” It was days, but our spirits were high because we could see included in Volume 13 of the Gesammelte Werke, definite progress. We are keenly aware that even and there I found its subtitle to be “a) Gegen Emil with the time that we dedicated to the endeavor, we Ludwigs Neueste Rede.” barely scratched the surface of what needs to be Two things piqued my interest in this short done. We did set basic principles for deciding what piece. One was that a quick read revealed that Til- to include or not, tentative criteria for volume edi- lich’s language was straightforward and uncompro- tors, and beginning editorial decisions, with more mising.