Religious Socialism, Paul Tillich, and the Abyss of Estrangement

Paul Tillich developed the twentieth century's richest theological conceptions of reconciliation and religious socialism on the same dialectical basis. His thought was rooted in the dialectical objective idealism of Hegel and Friedrich Schelling, but Tillich allowed Marx and Kierkegaard to qualify his idealism from contrasting positions that emphasized the situation of the knower. For Tillich, religious socialism and neo-Hegelian reconciliation were different ways of construing the same answer to the universal problem of estrangement.