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Paul Tillich

Paul TillichPaul Tillich (1886-1965).

Table of Contents

  • 1 Ideas
  • 2 Biography
  • 3 Major Works of Paul Tillich
    • 3.1 Related:
  • 4 Videos
  • 5 Related Products
    • 5.1 The Courage to Be (The Terry Lectures Series)
    • 5.2 Dynamics of Faith (Perennial Classics)
    • 5.3 Systematic Theology, vol. 1
    • 5.4 The Shaking of the Foundations
    • 5.5 The Essential Tillich
    • 5.6 The Courage to Be (The Terry Lectures Series)
    • 5.7 The New Being
    • 5.8 Systematic Theology: Three Volumes in One
    • 5.9 Tillich: A Brief Overview of the Life and Writings of Paul Tillich (Theology for Life)
    • 5.10 Systematic Theology, vol. 2: Existence and the Christ

Ideas

– Human beings are ultimately concerned with the fundamentals of being and meaning.

– The nominalist dichotomy of subject and object leads both to naturalism and supernaturalism; naturalism fails to appreciate the dynamic power and purpose of all being. while supernaturalism fails to appreciate the interpenetration of the sacred and the secular.

– God, as Being Itself, is the essential ground and source of all natural and intelligible structures of reality.

– Beings from their essense manifest what they are and what they ought to be in their dynamic acts of transcendence.

– True symbols and myths participate in what they present and as such serve as avenues to the depth of being.

– All reality can be potentially sacramental, for all reality is the interplay of the finite with the infinite.

– When the essence of being is manifested in existence, it is in a state of alienation, in human beings, this is experienced as the encounter with nonbeing and in all the acts by which the finite seeks to make itself absolute.

– In the movement from essence through existence to essentialization, human beings seek to overcome, by God’s grace, the gap between essence and existence.

– The Christian understanding of the Incarnation is that the deficiencies of the human ecistential situation have become absolutely united with the ground of all being, such that Christ conquers all the negativity of existence.

Biography

Tillich was born in Starzeddel, Germany, in 1886. From 1904 to 1909 he studied at universities in Berlin, Tubingen, and Halle, and in 1910 he received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Breslau. He was ordained in the Evangelical Church of the Prussian Union, Berlin, in 1912, and served as an army chaplain on the Western front during World War I.

From 1919-1924, Tillich was a Privatdozent at the University of Berlin, from 1924-25 Associate Professor of Theology at the University of Marburg, from 1925-29 Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the Dresden Institute of Technology, and from 1929-33, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt.

On April 13, 1933 Tillich’s position was suspended by the Nazi government, and on November 3, he arrived in New York, where, until 1937, he was Visiting Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Systematic Theology at Union Theological Seminary; at Union, he served as Associate Professor of Philosophical Theology (1937-1940) and Professor (1937-1955).

From 1955-1962, he was University Professor at Harvard, and during his last three years, the Nuveen Professor Theology in the Divinity School, University of Chicago.

Paul Tillich died in 1965.

Major Works of Paul Tillich

– The Interpretation of History (1936)
– The Protestant Era (1948)
– The Courage to Be (1952)
– The New Being (1955)
– Dynamics of Faith (1957)
– Theology of Culture (1959)
– Systematic Theology (3 volumes) (1951-1963)
– Perspectives on Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Protestant Theology (1968)

Related:

  • Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset
  • Wilhelm Dilthey
  • Thomas Aquinas
  • Abandonment (existentialism)

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    The Courage to Be (The Terry Lectures Series)

    The Courage to Be (The Terry Lectures Series)

    • Yale University Press
    • Tillich, Paul (Author)
    • English (Publication Language)
    • 187 Pages - 07/08/2014 (Publication Date) - Yale University Press (Publisher)
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    Dynamics of Faith (Perennial Classics)

    Dynamics of Faith (Perennial Classics)

    • Amazon Kindle Edition
    • Tillich, Paul (Author)
    • English (Publication Language)
    • 178 Pages - 09/13/2011 (Publication Date) - HarperOne (Publisher)
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    Systematic Theology, vol. 1

    Systematic Theology, vol. 1

    • University of Chicago Press
    • Tillich, Paul (Author)
    • English (Publication Language)
    • 307 Pages - 09/15/1973 (Publication Date) - University of Chicago Press (Publisher)
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    The Shaking of the Foundations

    The Shaking of the Foundations

    • Tillich, Paul (Author)
    • English (Publication Language)
    • 192 Pages - 05/16/2012 (Publication Date) - Wipf and Stock (Publisher)
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    The Essential Tillich
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    The Essential Tillich

    • Tillich, Paul (Author)
    • English (Publication Language)
    • 304 Pages - 09/15/1999 (Publication Date) - University of Chicago Press (Publisher)
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    The Courage to Be (The Terry Lectures Series)

    The Courage to Be (The Terry Lectures Series)

    • Amazon Kindle Edition
    • Tillich, Paul (Author)
    • English (Publication Language)
    • 242 Pages - 10/01/2008 (Publication Date) - Yale University Press (Publisher)
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    The New Being

    The New Being

    • Used Book in Good Condition
    • Tillich, Paul (Author)
    • English (Publication Language)
    • 179 Pages - 06/01/2005 (Publication Date) - Bison Books (Publisher)
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    Systematic Theology: Three Volumes in One

    Systematic Theology: Three Volumes in One

    • Hardcover Book
    • Tillich, Paul (Author)
    • English (Publication Language)
    • 911 Pages - 04/15/1967 (Publication Date) - University of Chicago Press (Publisher)
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    Tillich: A Brief Overview of the Life and Writings of Paul Tillich (Theology for Life)

    Tillich: A Brief Overview of the Life and Writings of Paul Tillich (Theology for Life)

    • Daniel Peterson (Author)
    • English (Publication Language)
    • 112 Pages - 05/03/2013 (Publication Date) - Lutheran University Press (Publisher)
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    Systematic Theology, vol. 2: Existence and the Christ

    Systematic Theology, vol. 2: Existence and the Christ

    • Tillich, Paul (Author)
    • English (Publication Language)
    • 195 Pages - 02/15/1975 (Publication Date) - University of Chicago Press (Publisher)
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