Paul Tillich’s scientific contributions

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Systematic Theology, Volume 2
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January 1951

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Paul Tillich

In this volume, the second of his three-volume reinterpretation of Christian theology, Paul Tillich comes to grips with the central idea of his system—the doctrine of the Christ. Man's predicament is described as the state of "estrangement" from himself, from his world, and from the divine ground of his self and his world. This situation drives man to the quest for a new state of things, in which reconciliation and reunion conquer estrangement. This is the quest for the Christ.

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... Paul Tillich, developing the line of thought that was affirmed in the theological approach of Friedrich Schleiermacher, illuminated this existential understanding of the self that is established in the power of courage. The elements of autonomy and relatedness are described as the "courage of individualization" and the "courage of participation" in the face of the existential threats of fate and death (Tillich 1962). 2 Schleiermacher went so far as to assert that the feeling of absolute dependence represents the "highest form of self-consciousness" and that this self-consciousness emerges simultaneously with the feeling (Schleiermacher 2011). ...

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Self and Dignity: The Spirituality of Survival
Systematic Theology, Volume 2
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  • January 1951