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
holiness awareness
Where there is faith there is an awareness of holiness.
desire reunion states
Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.
love-is blood reunion
For love ... is the blood of life, the power of reunion in the separated.
wine divine incarnation
Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human
names doctrine existential
...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.
success maturity achievement
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.
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.
expression safety creative
In those who rest on their unshakable faith, pharisaism and fanaticism are the unmistakable symptoms of doubt which has been repressed. Doubt is not overcome by repression but by courage. Courage does not deny that there is doubt, but it takes the doubt into itself as an expression of its own finitude and affirms the content of an ultimate concern. Courage does not need the safety of an unquestionable conviction. It includes the risk without which no creative life is possible.
conditions
There is no condition for forgiveness.
love-is infinite given
Love is the infinite which is given to the finite.
virtue courage-to-love greater
Courage is a greater virtue than love. At best, it takes courage to love.
depth knows
He who knows about depth knows about God.
truth passion answers
The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.
bridges atmosphere enlightenment
The courage to be as oneself within the atmosphere of Enlightenment is the courage to affirm oneself as a bridge from a lower to a higher state of rationality. It is obvious that this kind of courage to be must become conformist the moment its revolutionary attack on that which contradicts reason has ceased, namely in the victorious bourgeoisie.