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
kids parenting love-is
Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen."
philosophy roots tree
Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
pain grace strikes
Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness.
destiny men accountability
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
names doctrine existential
...history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.
destiny cities humanity
The citizens of a city are not guilty of the crimes committed in their city; but they are guilty as participants in the destiny of [humanity] as a whole and in the destiny of their city in particular; for their acts in which freedom was united with destiny have contributed to the destiny in which they participate. They are guilty, not of committing the crimes of which their group is accused, but of contributing to the destiny in which these crimes happened.
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.
philosophical philosophical-questions answers
Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers.
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.