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The North American Paul Tillich Society
The North American Paul Tillich Society is dedicated to the study of the thought of Paul Tillich (1886-1965) and the application of his works to other areas of human knowledge.
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NAPTS 2025 Annual Meeting
Friday, November 21st, 2025
Boston, Massachusetts
Hampton Room, Sheraton Boston Hotel
8:30 - 9:50 AM Religious Naturalism
Mark Banas, Ten on Religion: "Is Tillich A Qualified Naturalist? A Journey through Feuerbach, Wildman, and Panikkar"
Jari Ristiniemi, University of Gävle: "Tillich and Radical Immanence"
Kirk MacGregor, McPherson College: "Tillich's Conception of Nature as Intrinsically Valuable"
10:05 - 11:10 AM New Tillichians Student Panel
Sofia Loiacona, Mercyhurst University
Timothy Hakler, Gannon University: "Returning to Eden: Pope Francis' and Paul Tillich's Approach to Environmental Ethics"
Isabel Ovanesova, Gannon University: "The Axiology of Tillich and Spinoza: Ontological Grounds for Environmental Ethics"
11:10 - 11:50 AM Presidential Address
Benjamin J. Chicka, Curry College
11:50 AM - 1:00 PM Lunch and Board Meeting
1:00 - 2:45 PM The Axiology of Nature & Environmental Ethics
Julius Trugenberger, Universität zu Köln: "The Significance of Paul Tillich's Concept of Nature for the Bio-Ethical Debate in the 21st Century"
Greylyn Hydinger, Gannon University: "A Tillichian Axiology of Nature"
Matti Trimbath (NAPTS Fellow), Boston University: "From Ground of Being to Grounded Ethics: Tillich, Leopold, and Carson in Ecological Perspective" Wesley J. Wildman, Boston University: "Tillich and Religious Naturalism"
3:00 - 4:20 PM Ethics and Contemporary Issues
Taeha An, Vanderbilt University: "Dwelling in the Death-Time of the Other: Toward an Ethics of Mourning a Suicide"
David Odell-Scott, Kent State University: "'O Mortal' - Tillich and Paul on Ethical Monotheism"
Ronald Stone, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (Emeritus): "Resistance for Paul Tillich against the Third Reich and for Citizens Now"
4:30 - 5:35 PM Keynote
Robert Cummings Neville, Boston University (Emeritus)
5:35 - 6:00 PM Member Business Meeting
6:00 PM In Place of Formal Banquet, Groups Gather and Head to Dinner
Paul Tillich: Heritage series interviews November 13, 2018
Enhanced television interviews of Paul Tillich from the Heritage series, broadcast by Pittsburg Public Television, February 1961. Interviewing Dr. Tillich are Professors Walter Wiest and Robert C. Johnson of Pittsburg Theological Seminary.These videos will be posted under Tillich Resources