Word: humanation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...example, God is the answer to the question implied in human finitude; but if the question is posed in the context of the threat of non-being that is implied in human existence, God, says Tillich, "must be called the infinite power of being which resists the threat of nonbeing. If anxiety is defined as the awareness of being finite, God must be called the infinite ground of courage . . . If the notion of the Kingdom of God appears in correlation with the riddle of our historical existence, it must be called the meaning, fulfillment, and unity of history. In this...
Tillich rejects his critics' "supranaturalistic" view that "takes the Christian message to be a sum of revealed truths which have fallen into the human situation like strange bodies from a strange world." Man, he holds, "cannot receive answers to questions he has never asked." Tillich also considers his system superior to the "humanistic" systems of liberal theology, which derive the Christian message from man's natural self-development and the unfolding of human history. He also attacks the combination of natural and supranatural theology found in Roman Catholicism, with its "socalled arguments for 'the existence...
...Protestant ideas, even for those who do not accept Tillich's interpretation; 2) a kind of shock treatment for the complacent, who are apt to be driven, by Tillich's unorthodoxies, to re-examine the basis of their own faith; 3) a passionate, contagious concern for the human condition and for faith as an essential element of that condition...
Surrealism requires ideas of some sort, as abstract expressionism does not, and it still helps give weight and variety to Tàpies' now wholly abstract art. He finally abandoned recognizable images because, he explains, "abstraction can touch many springs in the human spirit, whereas realism can touch only...
...Society needs more than anything else to be reminded that man is, in himself, ultimate value. It needs to be reminded that neither the pressure of events nor the exigencies of diplomacy can warrant the final debasement of man. Art is neither use, nor appointed task; but given human compulsions, some intellectual stature and great competence, it can perhaps bring man back into focus as being of supreme importance...