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Throughout most of his work Tillich provides an ontological view of God as being-itself, the ground of being, and the power of being, one in which God is beyond essence and existence. [43] He was critical of conceptions of God as a being (e.g., the highest being), as well as of pantheistic conceptions of God as universal essence.
Rather, Christians should take their cue from the existentialist theology of Paul Tillich and consider God to be 'the ground of our being'. Dietrich Bonhoeffer's notion of religion-less Christianity is also a major theme in the book. Robinson's interpretation of this phrase is—inevitably—controversial.
Ground of Being may refer to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel#Absolute spirit; Ground (Dzogchen) Paul Tillich#God as the ground of being; Brahman in Hinduism, ...
Paul Tillich held that God is the ground of being and is something that precedes the subject and object (philosophy) dichotomy. He considered God to be what people are ultimately concerned with, existentially , and that religious symbols can be recovered as meaningful even without faith in the personal God of traditional Christianity.
Niebuhr borrowed often from Paul Tillich's notion of God. He was comfortable describing God as Being-itself, the One, or the Ground of Being. In this regard, Niebuhr held something of a middle ground between the dogmatic but dialectical theology of Karl Barth and the philosophically oriented modified liberalism of Paul Tillich.
The quote from Tillich cited in the theology section says that God is "beyond essence and existence." This seems to contradict the second paragraph of the theology section which says that the ground of being is essence (and God, of course, is the ground of being). Someone, de-confuse me! And the article, while you're at it!
Paul Prather: A family crisis has reminded me that questioning, doubt and bewilderment are norms of faith, not indications that you lack it. Faith isn’t easy. It’s often more about uncertainty ...
My only objection is this article presents a sort of one-dimensional view of Tillich. The Paul Tillich of the Wikipedia article comes across as barely human; as an almost disembodied Super Mind. But the greatest thinkers in history (in all disciplines) are also real humans, and Hannah Tillich's memoir fills in the human side of the man.