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- 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.
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Sep 19, 2020 · The influential twentieth-century Christian theologian and philosopher Paul Tillich presents his view of religion as being “ultimate concern.” He writes that, “Religion, in the largest and most basic sense of the word, is ultimate concern.
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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.
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
Intellectually ambitious housewives learned from him about the “ambiguities” in their lives, and cocktail parties rang with Tillichian talk about “idolatry” and “ultimate concern.”
Dec 17, 2021 · There are multiple contenders for such vague categories, including, e.g., Paul Tillich’s “object of ultimate concern” (1957a, e.g., 10–11), John Hick’s “the Real” (1989: 11ff); Keith Ward’s “the Transcendent” (1998); and the Project’s own proposal as “that which is most important to religious life because of the nature ...
RELIGION AND ULTIMATE CONCERN. AN ENCOUNTER WITH PAUL TILLICH'S THEOLOGY. Louis Midgley. Beginning a series on contemporary theologians, this essay examines some of the central ideas of the foremost Protestant thinker of our time.
Tillich actually made three rather different assertions about concern: (1) Man is ultimately concerned about the Ultimate, i.e., being-itself, or in theological language, God, for God “is the name for that which concerns man ultimately”; (2) Man can be concerned only about something that is actually concrete; (3) But no concrete thing is ...
