Effects of Romanticism on Tillich and Rahner

FAIN: FR-10346-78

Ron W. Walden
Bethany College (Bethany, WV 26032-3002)

This project entails a reading program in Romantic philosophy of religion, especially French Catholics. Result will be a major article, perhaps a book, on the connections between Romanticism and two 20th century theologians, Karl Rahner and Paul Tillich. A clear characterization of "Romanticism" complete with a cohesive and accurate picture of its varieties, would provide a conceptual grid against which Tillich and Rahner can be better understood and criticized.