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Also known as Paul Johannes Oskar Tillich, Paul Johannes Tillich

German-American theologian and philosopher

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Paul Tillich (1886–1965) was an author whose works include *Christianisme et judaïsme*, *Der Begriff des Übernatürlichen*, and *Paul Tillich's concept of faith*. He is recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.

Open Library records 948 works associated with his name, while Crossref lists five works. His bibliography also includes titles simply listed as *Tillich* and *Paul Tillich*.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1886
Died
1965
Works
948

Top works

  • Christianisme et judaïsme
  • Der Begriff des Übernatürlichen
  • Tillich
  • Paul Tillich
  • Paul Tillich's concept of faith

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Paul Johannes Tillich was a German-American Christian existentialist philosopher, religious socialist, and Lutheran theologian who was one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Paul+Tillich">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

  • Against Pascal I say: The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and the God of the philosophers is the same God. He is a person and the negation of himself as a person. Faith comprises both itself and the doubt of itself. The Christ is Jesus and the negation of Jesus.
  • At the end of ancient civilization ontic anxiety is predominant, at the end of the Middle Ages moral anxiety, and at the end of the modern period spiritual anxiety.
  • 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.
  • [American] conformism might approximate collectivism, not so much in economic respects, and not too much in political respects, but very much in the pattern of daily life and thought. Whether this will happen or not, and if it does to what degree, is partly dependent on the power of resistance in those who represent the opposite pole of the courage to be, the courage to be as oneself.
  • Individualism is the self-affirmation of the individual self as individual self without regard to its participation in its world. As such it is the opposite of collectivism, the self affirmation of the self as part of a larger whole without regard to its character as an individual self.
  • 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.

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Key facts

Born
Paul Johannes Tillich , ( 1886-08-20 ) August 20, 1886, Starzeddel , Province of Brandenburg , Prussia, German Empire
Died
October 22, 1965 (1965-10-22) (aged 79) , Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Spouses
Grethi Wever ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 28 September 1914</span>"}]]}'>1914 , divorced ) ​ Hannah Werner-Gottschow ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. March 1924</span>"}]]}'>1924 ) ​
Education
University of Berlin , University of Tübingen , University of Halle-Wittenberg , University of Breslau
Thesis
Mystik und Schuldbewusstsein in Schellings philosophischer Entwicklung (1911)
Language
English German
Main interests
Ontology Philosophical theology Existential analysis
Notable works
Systematic Theology (1951–1963) The Courage to Be (1952)
Notable ideas
See list Method of correlation Protestant principle, and Catholic substance Ground of being New Being Theology of culture Kairos Theonomy

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