REPLY TO PIEDISCALZI'S CRITIQUE OF "THE TRANSMORAL MORALITY"

The article presents a reply from the author in response to Nicholas Piediscalzi's literary criticism, "The Transmoral Morality," published in the April 1965 issue of the journal "Journal of the Scientific Study of Religion." The author of this article states that what Piediscalzi says about Paul Tillich is mostly not based upon Tillich's "Morality and Beyond," the only book of Tillich's that concerns him. The author adds that in this reply to Piediscalzi he is not going to engage in a general discussion, as it would leave most of Piediscalzi's comments outside the scope of his reply. The author confronted that Piediscalzi simply does not deal with his detailed arguments on the subject showing that Tillich does not create a "relativizing dichotomy between religion and morality," instead he contents himself with general denials and quotes from other Tillich books and even other writers. Piediscalzi's critique, in fact, is less a comment on the author's article than an article on Tillich in disguise.