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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.
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May 28, 2009 · Tillich's unforced synthesis of ontology and psychology is evident throughout his work. It is, perhaps, most prominent in his understanding of faith as humanity's ultimate concern.
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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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 ...
- The Weimar Republic: Sinn und Geist. If we were to indicate a constant in Paul Tillich’s philosophy, it would be his famous formula of 1948: “Religion is the substance of culture and culture the form of religion” (Tillich 1959, 42) (“Religion ist die Substanz der Kultur und Kultur ist die Form der Religion” (Tillich 1967, 84)).
- Emmigration: Anxiety and Risk. In the second half of the 1930s, after Tillich had emigrated to America, the synthetic idea of culture, based on the Absolute, the Unconditional, gradually gives way to a hermeneutics of culture, searching for the hidden religious motives in secular phenomena: “The old speculative idea of a theology of culture transformed into a project of religious-philosophical hermeneutics of culture” (Barth 2010, 35).
- Civic Awakening: Between the Courage to be and Anxiety. Now, we need to return to the question indicated in the introduction: Why do we consider the attack on the World Trade Center a turning point?
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.
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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’.
