Prophetic Criticism and the Rhetoric of Temporality
Paul Tillich’s Kairos Texts and Weimar Intellectual Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12662778 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Weidner (0000-0002-2214-9346, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 71-88 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Theology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1462-317X • E-ISSN: 1743-1719 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1462317x.2020.1730558 |
| OpenAlex | W3008825566 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
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
Charisma · Criticism · Dialectic · Epistemology · Kairos · Literature · Political theology · Politics · Predestination · Rhetoric · Sociology · Temporality · Theology · German Colonialism and Identity Studies · Law · Literature and Cultural Memory · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |