Paul Tillich
Paul Tillich
Paul Johannes Tillichwas a German American Christian existentialist philosopher and Lutheran theologian who is widely regarded as one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth20 August 1886
CountryGermany
motivation spirituality
Our spirituality is the ground of our being.
men able reason
Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason
wine divine incarnation
Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human
sacrifice self perfect
Mystical identification transcends the aristocratic virtue of courageous self-sacrifice. It is self- surrender in a higher, more complete, and more complete and more radical form. It is the perfect form of self-affirmation.
love-is blood reunion
For love ... is the blood of life, the power of reunion in the separated.
doubt embrace
Faith embraces itself and the doubt about itself.
vitality destruction abyss
The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.
desire reunion states
Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.
real forgotten eternity
Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.
grace doe helping
There is no love which does not become help.
darkness vision height
We are known in a depth of darkness through which we ourselves do not even dare to look. And at the same time, we are seen in a height of a fullness which surpasses our highest vision.
faith personality mind
Faith as ultimate concern is an act of the total personality. It happens in the center of the personal life and includes all its elements. Faith is the most centered act of the human mind. It is not a movement of a special section or a special function of (our) total being. They all are united in the act of faith.
holiness awareness
Where there is faith there is an awareness of holiness.
doubt serious ifs
There is faith in every serious doubt, namely, the faith in the truth as such, even if the only truth we can express is our lack of truth.