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Paul Tillich Biography

Paul Johannes Tillich (August 20, 1886 – October 22, 1965) was a German-American Christian existentialist philosopher and Lutheran Protestant theologian who is widely regarded as one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century.

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Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

Answer, Answers, Life, Preliminary, Religion, States

There is no place to which we could flee from God, which is outside of God.

Flee, God, Place

Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.

Doubt, Knowledge, Meaninglessness, Necessary, Tools

Culture (science) is the form of religion; Religion is the substance of culture (science).

Culture, Religion, Science, Substance

The existential attitude is one of involvement in contrast to a merely theoretical or detached attitude. "Existential" in this sense can be defined as participating in a situation, especially a cognitive situation, with the whole of one's existence.

Attitude, Defined, Existence, Existentialism, Sense

Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern.

Attitude, Concern, Concerns, Existentialism, Infinite, Knowledge

Boredom is rage spread thin.

Blessing, Boredom, Rage, Thin

The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God.

Depth, Inexhaustible, Infinite, Names

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.

Express, Inspirational, Language, Lonely, Solitude, Wisdom

There is no condition for forgiveness.

Condition, Conditions, Forgiveness

Theology moves back and forth between two poles, the eternal truth of its foundations and the temporal situation in which the eternal truth must be received.

Back, Destiny, Moves, Moving, Poles, Two

The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself.

Anxiety, Eliminated, Existence, Finite, Threat

Man is able to decide for or against reason, he is able to create beyond reason or to destroy below reason

Able, Against, Decide, Men, Reason

Anxiety may consist of the loss of psychological or spiritual meaning which is identified with one's existence as a self, i. e. , the threat of meaninglessness.

Consist, Loss, Psychological, Self, Spiritual, Wisdom

The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.

Answers, Passion, Silenced, Truth, Weight

The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.

And Love, Consequence, Deterioration, Love, Love Is

Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.

Concerned, Desire, Reunion, Seperated, States, Ultimately

One of the unfortunate consequences of the intellectualization of man's spiritual life was that the word "spirit" was lost and replaced by mind or intellect, and that the element of vitality which is present in "spirit" was separated and interpreted as an independent biological force. Man was divided into a bloodless intellect and a meaningless vitality. The middle ground between them, the spiritual soul, in which vitality and intentionality are united, was dropped.

Divided, Independent, Intellectualization, Men, Soul, Spiritual

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Design, Failure, Forgiven, Risk, Whole

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Positive, Confidence, Courage, Unacceptable, Accept

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