What is the relationship between faith and doubt? How do we overcome despair when confronting the ugliest dimensions of human nature? Can philosophy help us grapple with these issues?

In this episode, Dr. Samuel Andrew Shearn drops by the Pod Beyond Pod to tackle these questions and discuss his book Pastor Tillich. We talk about Tillich’s time as an army chaplain during WWI, his engagement with the German philosopher Friedrich Schelling, and the meaning of justification.

Dr. Shearn's web links:

https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192857859.001.0001

https://www.ev.theologie.uni-mainz.de/systematische-theologie-und-sozialethik/samuel-shearn/

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