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The inward moment: Paul Tillich, psychoanalysis, and liberal Christianity in American thought, 1945-1965
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Riggs, Charles. The inward moment: Paul Tillich, psychoanalysis, and liberal Christianity in American thought, 1945-1965. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-k8ww-x468

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TitleThe inward moment: Paul Tillich, psychoanalysis, and liberal Christianity in American thought, 1945-1965
NameRiggs, Charles (author); Lears, Thomas J (chair); Fabian, Ann (internal member); Greenberg, David (internal member); Ratner-Rosenhagen, Jennifer (outside member); Rutgers University; School of Graduate Studies
Date Created2019
Other Date2019-10 (degree)
SubjectHistory, Psychoanalysis and religion -- United States -- 20th century, Tillich, Paul, 1886-1965
Extent1 online resource (iv, 347 pages)
DescriptionStanding at the intersection of intellectual history, religious history, and the history of psychology, this dissertation examines the German-American Protestant theologian Paul Tillich (1886-1965) and, through him, the encounter between religion and psychoanalysis in American thought after the Second World War. Tillich was a public intellectual, a minor academic celebrity, and a broker in the mid-twentieth-century rapprochement between the liberal Protestant ministry and the therapeutic helping professions, especially psychoanalysis. Tillich incorporated Freudian and existentialist insights about human nature into his theological outlook while also offering sharp critiques of depth psychology in its purely secular forms. In successive chapters, this dissertation details Tillich’s psychoanalytic critique of religious moralism, his dialogues with secular psychotherapists, his complex and tumultuous inner life, and his influence on pluralist and post-Protestant religious trends that emerged during his later years. Throughout, I aim to portray Tillich’s biography as well as his theological and psychological thought against the backdrop of his intellectual milieu in post-World War II America, an environment that I label the “inward moment.”
NotePh.D.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Genretheses, ETD doctoral
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-k8ww-x468
LanguageEnglish
CollectionSchool of Graduate Studies Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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