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Name:
Paul Johannes Tillich
Dates:
Born: 1886
Died: October 22, 1965 in Chicago
Ordained: 1912
Emigrated to America: 1933
Biography:
Paul Johannes Tillich was a German-American theologian who is perhaps most famous
for arguing in his work Systematic Theology that religion is really one's
"ultimate concern" and that god is really the "ground of all being" or simply
"being itself," as opposed to one "being" among others. Thus, to be religious is
simply to have some concern which excludes all other concerns and interests - it
is soemthing to which one has total and unconditional commitment.
Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to make much of any sense out of those phrases - they can mean absolutely anything to anyone. The result of this is that neither religion nor god end up being much of anything at all.
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