Paul Tillich

Listening to Tillich

Listening to Tillich

Conversations with contemporaries, lectures and contributions from research. Multi-part recordings are divided into sections that can be played individually and cited by their own address. Two holdings are documented but not yet digitised — this is stated explicitly.

  1. Eyewitness conversation

    Ted Farris on his grandfather Paul Tillich

    New York, 2019. Paul Tillich's grandson remembers his grandfather, Hanna Tillich, the family's movement between German and English, and what has remained of the work. Six sections, each playable on its own. The conversation also exists in full in German.

    Runtime
    6 sections, around 9 minutes in total
    Source
    Interview conducted by the research project, New York 2019
    Rights
    With the consent of the interviewee
    Accompanying
    German version available in ten sections

    Original recording · Audio

    0:26

    0:00Opening9:04

  2. Conversation series

    Tillich in interreligious conversation

    A nine-part series on Tillich as a mediator between religions, on the problem of defining religion, and on Confucianism. Recorded in 2020 as part of the research project, partly in German, partly in English.

    Runtime
    9 sections, around 13 minutes in total
    Source
    Research project, recorded 2020
    Rights
    As stated by those involved
    Accompanying
    German and English mixed

    Original recording · Audio

    0:20

    0:00Introduction11:40

  3. Lecture series

    Religion and violence — Tillich and the Seneca Nation

    Verna Ehret on Tillich's concept of justice and his engagement for the Seneca Nation in the Kinzua conflict. Five sections, recorded in 2020. The basis of the module “Love, Power and Justice”.

    Runtime
    5 sections, around 15 minutes in total
    Source
    Research project, recorded 2020
    Rights
    As stated by the speaker
    Accompanying
    In English

    Original recording · Audio

    3:02

    0:00Introduction15:07

  4. Research

    Lectures from Tillich research

    Contributions by Werner Schüßler and Christian Danz on Tillich's concept of God and on the relation between German idealism and theology, recorded in 2018. Together with an extended conversation with Mary Ann Stenger on creative justice, racism and feminist theology.

    Runtime
    3 contributions, 6 to 38 minutes
    Source
    German Paul Tillich Society
    Rights
    As stated by the speakers
    Accompanying
    The first two contributions are in German

    Original recording · Audio

    15:32

    0:00Werner Schüßler: Tillich's concept of God (in German)59:43

  5. Podcast

    Tillich podcast

    An introduction to Tillich's thought in conversation form, made in 2018 in connection with the module on Judaism. In German.

    Runtime
    6:45
    Source
    Research project, 2018
    Rights
    CC BY-SA 4.0
    Accompanying
    In German · transcript in preparation

    Original recording · Audio

    6:45

    0:00Opening6:45

  6. Original recording

    Address on receiving the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade

    Frankfurt am Main, 1962. Tillich speaks about the experience of living on the boundary and about responsibility after the catastrophe. The longest continuous address in the collection. In German.

    Runtime
    40:38
    Source
    Archive of the German Paul Tillich Society
    Rights
    Cleared for use in teaching and research
    Accompanying
    In German

    Original recording · Audio

    40:38

    0:0040:38

  7. Tape, digitised

    Tape in 19 tracks

    A continuously recorded tape, digitised and segmented into 19 tracks. Side 1 carries nine, side 2 carries ten. In German.

    Runtime
    92:26
    Source
    Private holdings, handed over in 2017
    Rights
    German Paul Tillich Society
    Accompanying
    The tracks have not yet been catalogued by content

    Original recording · Audio

    4:53

    0:00Side 1, track 011:32:26