Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christians, these concepts lost their meaning long ago. What Tillich has been trying to do all his life is to make the Christian message meaningful for 20th century man in all his "estrangement." Tillich's greatest appeal is not to full-fledged believers but to the seekers after faith...
...Faith & Doubt. Tillich's views of that drama were decisively shaped by Wingolf, a national fraternity of university stu dents, dedicated to combat with Christian principles the paganism of German fraternity life, which was built around the cult of dueling and the cult of getting drunk...
...crucial time for him came when the fraternity was torn by a threatened schism over the question of whether belief in the Apostles' Creed should be a requirement of membership. "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...
This paradoxical relationship between faith and doubt is a keystone of Tillich's theology. From it he derives what he calls "the Protestant Principle," the necessity of challenging the claim to pure, "unbroken" truth by any institution or church, including Protestantism itself, or even by Scripture. From it he derives his all-important distinction between religious "heteronomy," which is imposed upon the individual, and religious "autonomy," in which the individual continually seeks and hopes to find. The situation of doubt, says Tillich, is "existential"-that is, inevitably part of the predicament in which man leads his human existence...
...considers it presumptuous of any "conditional" institution, such as church or state, to pose as spokesman for the "unconditional," i.e., God. According to the Protestant Principle, as he expounds it, every Yes must be coupled with a corresponding No, and the Protestant Principle "does not accept any truth of faith as ultimate, except the one that no man possesses...