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An ultimate concern is in principle an unconditional concern which calls for the allegiance of the whole self - emotionally, volitionally, and intellectually. So conceived, anything could in theory become the object of ultimate concern - whether material, mental, or spiritual in nature.
- Stanley Grean
- 1993
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.
- 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?
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
In what follows I shall examine Tillich's distinction between ultimate and preliminary concern, and the implications this distinction has for his moral theology.
After one notices that the adverb modifying 'concerned' generates the content of the concern, one wonders why Professor Tillich limited himself to man's ultimate, unconditional, total, and infinite concerns.
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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 ...
