Word: tillichian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...oddly modern way. We find Mr. Seltzer speaking often of "self" and endeavoring to explain his action. He speaks too of God, but I come away from text and performance feeling that this More's God is one Sir Thomas would not have recognized. Bolt gives us almost a Tillichian "ground of being," not the deity of A.D. 1535. When More on the scaffold protested that he "died the King's good servant, but God's first," he, I think, had a simpler more direct faith than Bolt has been able to find words for, a belief whose awful...
...professionals, but his name was better known to laymen than that of any other contemporary theologian. Students crowded his lectures, and paperback editions of his books sold in the hundreds of thousands. Intellectually ambitious housewives learned from him about the "ambiguities" in their lives, and cocktail parties rang with Tillichian talk about "idolatry" and "ultimate concern." Even though his theories were only dimly understood by many laymen, there was good reason for their appeal, for Tillich tirelessly tried to relate theology to contemporary problems. "To do this," says Dean Jerald Brauer of the Chicago University Divinity School...
This sort of pantheistic, almost Tillichian deity, leaves opportunity for one to think and do whatever he wishes in respect to God. For if nothing can be affirmed about Him, everything may be said of Him, as Tillich notes, and everything one says will have symbolic truth. It requires, of course, an extremely sensitive and intense mind to immerse oneself so thoroughly in the aspect of God one chooses that one may understand Him and render Him meaningful in one's existence...
Since in all the various areas of learning--sociology, psychology, the sciences, history, philosophy, even business administration--ultimate question about existence are involved, these studies represent practical actualizations of a vast and embracing spiritual realm. In the Tillichian transcendental realm there can be no divorce of preaching and pedagogy; each discipline is a partial manifestation of the Meaning of Being...
...Tillich, then, a University must by its very nature transcend mere secular considerations; it is an institution dedicated to matters of ultimate concern. For teachers with less of the Tillichian "vision," however, the questions of religion in education appear more controversial, for they are bound to earthly considerations of sect and creed...