Among the general public, he is best known for his works The Courage to Be (1952) and Dynamics of Faith (1957), which introduced issues of theology and modern culture to a general readership. Theologically, he is best known for his major three-volume work Systematic Theology (1951–63) in which he developed his "method of correlation", an approach of exploring the symbols of Christian revelation as answers to the problems of human existence raised by contemporary existential philosophical analysis.
Biography
Tillich was born on August 20, 1886, in the small village of Starzeddel (Starosiedle), Province of Brandenburg, which village was then part of Germany. He was the oldest of three children, with two sisters: Johanna (born 1888, died 1920) and Elisabeth (born 1893). Tillich’s Prussian father Johannes Tillich was a conservative Lutheran pastor of the Evangelical State Church of Prussia's older Provinces; his mother Mathilde Dürselen was from the Rhineland and more liberal. When Tillich was four, his father became superintendent of a diocese in Bad Schönfliess (now Trzcińsko-Zdrój, Poland), a town of three thousand, where Tillich began secondary school (Elementarschule). In 1898, Tillich was sent to Königsberg in der Neumark (now Chojna, Poland) to begin his gymnasium schooling. He was billeted in a boarding house and experienced a loneliness that he sought to overcome by reading the Bible while encountering humanistic ideas at school.
"He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being."
"Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt."
"Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith"
"The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of being unacceptable"
"I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment."
"Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone."
"Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith."
"Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free."
"Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being"
"Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny."
"Faith is the state of being ultimately concerned."
One thing that Paul Tillich said was that religion is a search for the truth about man’s existence and his relationship with God and his fellow man; and that once you stop searching and think you’ve got it made—at that point, you lose your religion.
By Katherine Gwyther ... Swifties ... The 20th-century German-American theologian Paul Tillich viewed theology similarly, as a process of understanding “what concerns us ultimately” – developing further knowledge of the object of faith.
...Morris and other biographers describe as a kind of spiritual awakening, brought on by reading the works of theologians and philosophers like Reinhold Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, and Søren Kierkegaard.
This is a sermon I gave Sunday April 28 at a service held at the encampment for Gaza at Princeton University... Some of them are dead ... All institutions, including the church, the theologian Paul Tillich once wrote, are inherently demonic ... Cone continues.
This is a sermon the author gave Sunday, April 28 at a service held at the encampment for Gaza at Princeton University...Staying Power by Mr. Fish ... All institutions, including the church, the theologian Paul Tillich once wrote, are inherently demonic ... 29.
It is hard to do justice to thinkers as thorny and disparate as the vehemently anti-Christian iconoclast Friedrich Nietzsche and the Christian existentialistPaul Tillich in a book of this modest size.
Requiem for The New York Times – by Mr. Fish... in New York ... The theologian Paul Tillich writes that all institutions are inherently demonic, that the moral life usually requires, at some point, that we defy institutions, even at the cost of our careers ... .
NEW YORK... It will be the last ... He hired me ... 7 ...Harvard ... The theologian Paul Tillich writes that all institutions are inherently demonic, that the moral life usually requires, at some point, that we defy institutions, even at the cost of our careers ... ....
Requiem for The New York Times – by Mr. Fish...7 ... The theologian Paul Tillich writes that all institutions are inherently demonic, that the moral life usually requires, at some point, that we defy institutions, even at the cost of our careers ... ....
They named their effort after the Greek word for aim, or goal ...GregKhalil ... Quoting from theologian Paul Tillich, physicist Niels Bohr and Sufi poet Hafiz, Khalil told them that ending any conflict begins with listening ... Another core idea ... senator ... 2022 ... .
I want to make a point about institutions because we both worked within institutions and for all their many faults – The great theologian, Paul Tillich, said, “All institutions, including the church, ...
I want to make a point about institutions because we both worked within institutions and for all their many faults – The great theologian, Paul Tillich, said, “All institutions, including the church, ...
I want to make a point about institutions because we both worked within institutions and for all their many faults – The great theologian, Paul Tillich, said, “All institutions, including the ...
The Advocate
03 Mar 2024
The Advocate
03 Mar 2024