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...divinely revealed moral law, however, does seem to contradict divinely created divinely created human nature in other aspects of Tillich's thinking Luther and Pall both said existences itself is guilt, only God can save us from the law. Tillich agrees. Such thinking can hardly be considered liberal...
...Tillich also makes some rather vexing statements about conscience--the agent through which we understand Logos. He says, "We can lose our salvation even when we do it with an uneasy conscience. The unity and consistency of the moral personality are more important than its subjection to a truth that endangers this unity." From Tillich's analysis of conscience one wonders if the theologian values the unity of Hitler's moral, personality more than six million Jewish lives A. conscience that is committed is not enough...
...error in judgment or a difference in expression, but a demonic possession, splitting the moral self and producing a bad conscience. On this basis the church waged its war against the heretics of all periods." Does this give the church a right to pass judgment on a "bad conscience"? Tillich gives no clear answer. He does say, how ever, that the problems of individual conscience say nothing except that everybody has a bad one, needing the grace...
...final chapter of Morality and Beyond discusses the plight of moral values in today's changing world a world in which man has no home, an uniqueness no meaning. Technology, the thing-maker, and mass society the thing, have done away with of them, Tillich says Philosophy should concern itself with the moral confusion and propose solutions, not content itself to play language games...
...admire Tillich's struggle with moral problems, even though his findings possess insuperable difficul- ties. It is hard indeed to imagine Being-Itself leading the chosen people out of Egypt. Likewise, it is difficult to believe that moral and physical laws are absolute in the same sense...