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Paul Johannes Tillich (/ ˈ t ɪ l ɪ k /; [5] German:; August 20, 1886 – October 22, 1965) was a German-American Christian existentialist philosopher, religious socialist, and Lutheran theologian who was one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century. [6]
He believed that God is above history, that he makes commands upon human beings, and that all history is under the control of this God. 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 ...
Paul Tillich#God as the ground of being; Brahman in Hinduism, the metaphysical ground of all being; See also. Theistic personalism This page was last edited on 8 ...
In addition to Søren Kierkegaard, Christian existentialists include German Protestant theologians Paul Tillich, and Rudolf Bultmann, American existential psychologist Rollo May (who introduced much of Tillich's thought to a general American readership), British Anglican theologian John Macquarrie, American philosopher Clifford Williams, French ...
Tillich is saying, in effect, “you can become humanists because your God of theism and my ‘God above the God of theism’ are both named God.” —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.156.51.132 00:05, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
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. [21]
Although Tillich’s “God above God” is humanity (Wheat, 1970, pp. 20-22, 90-146) and therefore nonsupernatural, most readers and interpreters have assumed that Tillich is a supernaturalist of one sort or another–either a theist, a deist, or a metaphysician (pantheist, panentheist, or mystic).
Paul Tillich (1886–1965) popularized the concept of a theology of culture, publishing a book with that title in 1959, that showed the religious dimension of several spheres of culture. He discussed ways of differentiating the sacred and the secular. In Tillich's work existentialism was also an important motif. [1]