CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION -- pg. 3

A. The Relation of the Second Volume of Systematic Theology
to the First Volume and to the System as a Whole -- pg. 3

B. Restatements of Answers Given in Volume I -- pg. 5

PART III. EXISTENCE AND THE CHRIST

I. EXISTENCE AND THE QUEST FOR THE CHRIST -- pg. 19

A. Existence and Existentialism -- pg. 19

B. The Transition from Essence to Existence and the Symbol
of “the Fall” -- pg. 29

C. The Marks of Man’s Estrangement and the Concept of Sin -- pg. 44

D. Existential Self-destruction and the Doctrine of Evil -- pg. 59

E. The Quest for the New Being and the Meaning of “Christ” -- pg. 78

II. THE REALITY OF THE CHRIST -- pg. 97

A. Jesus as the Christ -- pg. 97

B. The New Being in Jesus as the Christ -- pg. 118

C. Valuation of the Christological Dogma -- pg. 138

D. The Universal Significance of the Event Jesus the Christ -- pg. 150

E. The New Being in Jesus as the Christ as the Power of Salvation -- pg. 165

INDEX -- pg. 183

In this volume, the second of his three-volume reinterpretation of Christian theology, Paul Tillich comes to grips with the central idea of his system—the doctrine of the Christ. Man’s predicament is described as the state of “estrangement” from himself, from his world, and from the divine ground of his self and his world. This situation drives man to the quest for a new state of things, in which reconciliation and reunion conquer estrangement. This is the quest for the Christ.