Preface I (Nr. 0001)

Tillich Lectures

Paul Tillich, Religion and Culture,

Harvard Univ., Fall and Spring 1955-56

Religion and Culture

Man's creative encounter with reality:1

  • 1. Language: Religion and Language
  • 2. Transforming or Technical Function of the Human Mind
  • 3. Cognitive Perception: Religion and the Cognitive Realm
    • (Religion and Science,
    • Religion and Historical Research,
    • Religion and Philosophy,
    • Religion and Depth Psychology)
  • 4. Aesthetic Intuition of Reality
  • 5. Social Exchange
  • 6. Function of the Law
  • 7. Experience of the Norm
  • 8. Political Functions

1In his lectures, Tillich distinguishes eight cultural functions. In doing so, he has expanded upon the classification system presented in his earlier writings; see Christian Danz, ##.