Word: concerning
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...thus acclaimed is also denounced by some orthodox Christian believers as not a Christian at all and possibly an outright atheist. Faith, according to Tillich. is not belief in God but "ultimate concern." Hence an atheist is a believer, too, unless he is wholly indifferent to the ultimate questions. Doubt is an in evitable part of faith. Sin is not some thing one commits, but a state of "estrangement" from one's true self. "The importance of being a Christian is that we can stand the insight that it is of no importance." says Tillich; the religious...
...After a hard-fought battle, we agreed that these traditional articles of faith could not be made obligatory for the individual. Specific doubts on the part of the individual should be allowable-and even necessary. From this controversy I realized that if Christianity is a man's ultimate concern, he can still be a minister, though he may have many doubts. For doubting is part of being a man, and his own doubts will make him more effective in bringing other doubters to faith...
...Hope. Man approaches the ineffable reality that lies behind the symbol through the combination of longing and frustration, which Tillich calls "ultimate concern." Man's hope is the "New Being," a conception Tillich has derived from St. Paul's second letter to the Corinthians (II Corinthians 5:17): "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become...
...Churches, about membership and doctrines, about institutions and ministers . . . [These] are of no importance if the ultimate question is asked, the question of a New Reality . . . We should worry more about [this] than about anything else between heaven and earth. The New Creation-this is our ultimate concern; this should be our infinite passion . . . In comparison with it everything else, even religion or non-religion, even Christianity or non-Christianity, matters very little...
...great questions arising from man's "ultimate concern" he groups under three headings: Being, Existence, and Life. Man's Being is his essential nature, from which he is estranged as Adam was estranged from Eden. Existence encompasses the situation in which estranged man finds himself. Life is the combination of Being and Existence...