2020 und 2022 an der Evangelischen Akademie Frankfurt gehalten wurden, diskutieren diese drei Herausforderungen aus philosophischer und theologischer Perspektive. Mit Beiträgen von Knut Berner, Ingolf U. Dalferth, Gesche Linde, Maria S. Lotter, Thomas Schmidt und Claudia Welz. [Evil - Shame - Sacrifice. Three Core Religious Phenomena from a Philosophical-Theological Perspective] Religions promise and offer redemption; therefore all, yet also only those who have and perceive in themselves a desire for redemption can rightly be considered religious. Three obstacles stand in the way, however, when it comes to believing the redemptive message of any given religion: first, the challenge of (experiencing) evil; second, shame and guilt as purported preconditions for and trajectories to religion; third, the idea of sacrifice as a prerequisite and necessary medium for generating and motivating any redemptive willingness on the part of the deity. The present volume contains six articles - proceedings of the Paul Tillich-Lectures held at Evangelische Akademie Frankfurt between 2020 and 2022; they discuss the three challenges just mentioned from the perspective of philosophy and theology, respectively.