This book examines Tillich’s main theological work, the three-volume Systematic Theology, against the background of Tillich’s developing theological thought since his studies around 1900. While the Systematic Theology emerged from lectures that Tillich gave at the Union Theological Seminary in New York from 1936 onwards, his lectures on “Advanced Problems in Systematic Theology” take up considerations that go back to his first drafts of a systematic theology from 1913 and his dogmatic lectures from Germany in the 1920s. The Systematic Theology that Tillich publishes in the USA cannot, therefore, be understood without including Tillich’s German dogmatic drafts, an area of Tillich research that has previously been underrepresented in English scholarship.
