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When Paul Tillich died after a heart attack last week at the University of Chicago’s Billings Hospital, there was no doubt that his work would stand as one of the religious landmarks of his...
Mar 1, 2024 · Thinkers like Paul Tillich, William James, Charles Taylor, James Cone, and Cornel West have caught my eye as mediators between the spiritual and the religious, and the universals that inform living in a contemporary world.
Jan 1, 2020 · The concept of ultimate concern originated in the writings of Paul Tillich (1951, 1957), who was an existential theologian and philosopher that impacted the development of existential psychology in the United States.
Mar 21, 2024 · In understanding Tillich’s theology, it is important to begin with his two key concepts: faith and God. Tillich considered faith not a belief in the unbelievable, but the ‘state of being grasped by an ultimate concern’; and he conceived of God not as a being, but as ‘the ground of being’.
- Ted Farris
Paul Tillich has defined faith as 'the state of being ultimately concerned' (Tillich, 1957b, p. 1). This is to define faith by its psychic character rather than by its specific content. Whatever is regarded as ultimately important in one's life is in effect the object or subject of one's faith.
- Stanley Grean
- 1993
But Tillich goes much further; ultimate concern is ubiquitous: “no human mind is entirely without an ultimate concern and some practical and theoretical expression of it” (TPT, p. 347). Why is it necessary to argue that everyone is religious?
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According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Tillich believes the essence of religious attitudes is what he calls "ultimate concern". Separate from all profane and ordinary realities, the object of the concern is understood as sacred, numinous or holy.
