SOURCE: “Master Teacher,” in The Christian Century, Vol. LXXXV, No. 42, October 16, 1968, pp. 1305-06.

In the following review, Cooper recommends A History of Christian Thought to readers both familiar with and new to Tillich, stating that the book introduces Tillich's main theological interests.

This is the second posthumous work of Paul Tillich to be edited by his former student, Carl E. Braaten of the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. Its substance was originally given as lectures during Tillich's tenure at Union Theological Seminary, but he had neither the time nor the inclination to put those lectures into book form. The “first edition” of Tillich's lectures on the history of Christian thought was produced in 1953 by Peter H. John, who stenographically recorded, transcribed and mimeographed them. Braaten's text is based on John's “second edition,” produced in 1956.

Like Perspectives on 19th and 20th Century Protestant Theology, Braaten's first effort at...