Published: 2022-03-23

The Mediation of the Church in the Thought of Paul Tillich

Marcin Walczak
Collectanea Theologica
Section: Articles
https://doi.org/10.21697/ct.2022.92.1.05

Abstract

The mediation of the Church is difficult to accept for many believers today, especially in the context of a crisis of the church institutions. That is why it is so important to show the theological foundations and principles of the Church's mediation in the work of human salvation. This article does so by examining the ecclesiology of one of the great Protestant theologians of the 20th century, Paul Tillich, in terms of the idea of ​​mediation. This view of the thought of the Protestant thinker makes it possible to understand that there is no Christian theology without the mediating role of the Church. In the first part, the concept of the Church as a Spiritual Community will be analyzed. Then, the mediating role of the Church in its functions will be presented, and then the mediation of the Church in the spiritual growth of a Christian will be analyzed. The mediating role of the Church is based on the foundation of the action of the Holy Spirit and concerns in the first place the mediation of the community of faith, and not some specific institutional solutions.

Keywords:

Paul Tillich, Church, ecclesiology, mediation, Spiritual Community

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Walczak, M. (2022). The Mediation of the Church in the Thought of Paul Tillich. Collectanea Theologica, 92(1), 113–150. https://doi.org/10.21697/ct.2022.92.1.05

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