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
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.
love care
Love that cares, listens.
spiritual independent men
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.
mean reality men
[A] process was going on in which people were transformed into things, into pieces of reality which pure science can calculate and technical science can control. … [T]he safety which is guaranteed by well-functioning mechanisms for the technical control of nature, by the refined psychological control of the person, by the rapidly increasing organizational control of society – this safety is bought at a high price: man, for whom all this was invented as a means, becomes a means himself in the service of means.
pain work joy
The joy about our work is spoiled when we perform it not because of what we produce but because of the pleasure with which it can provide us, or the pain against which it can protect us.
blessing boredom rage
Boredom is rage spread thin.
conditions
There is no condition for forgiveness.