SOURCE: “Tillich's Questions and Answers,” in The New Republic, Vol. 157, August 5-12, 1967, pp. 36-38.

In the following review, Hazelton favorably treats Systematic Theology as a summing up of Tillich’s reflections on the significance of modern culture and the Christian faith.

Those who knew Paul Tillich even slightly were quick to recognize in him a seldom encountered intellectual greatness. His mind had a style of its own: gravely lucid, wide-ranging, refreshingly different from the ingrown dogmatism of so many of his theological contemporaries. At two points especially he seemed to stand above them. He was able to penetrate with remarkable agility and accuracy into viewpoints and issues taking shape within the general culture, whether in politics, psychotherapy or in the plastic arts. And to this gift he added another—the power of a synthesizing comprehension which could discover basic, relevant connections where others saw only fragmentation or contradiction...