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Paul Johannes Tillich (August 20, 1886 – October 22, 1965) was a German-American Christian existentialist philosopher, Christian socialist, and Lutheran theologian who was one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century.
Paul Tillich, German-born U.S. theologian and philosopher whose discussions of God and faith illuminated and bound together the realms of traditional Christianity and modern culture. Some critics have regarded him as the last major spokesman for a vanishing Christian culture in the 20th century.
Tillich, Paul. August 20, 1886 to October 22, 1965. A theologian who had a major influence on Martin Luther King’s religious ideas, Paul Tillich is considered one of the foremost thinkers of Protestantism.
Mar 21, 2024 · Paul Tillich in 1933 in Berlin. While actively participating in intellectual circles, Tillich cultivated friendships with other key thinkers. As a philosophy professor at the University of Frankfurt, he helped establish a chair in philosophy to bring Max Horkheimer to the faculty.
Paul Tillich, (born, Aug. 20, 1886, Starzeddel, Brandenburg, Ger.—died Oct. 22, 1965, Chicago, Ill., U.S.), German-born U.S. Protestant theologian. He studied at Berlin, Tübingen, and Halle and was a chaplain with the German army during World War I.
Paul Tillich - Nazi Germany, Theology, Existentialism: Tillich’s passionate concern for freedom made him an early critic of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement, and in retaliation he was barred from German universities in 1933—the first non-Jewish academician “to be so honoured,” as he wryly put it.
Tillich as a philosopher of life whose full research has been the relationship of religion to existence, relates the significance of existentialism to Christian theology (Tavard 1962, 14). For Tillich, "existentialism gives an analysis of what it means to exist" (ST II, 25).
Paul Tillich. When Hitler came to power, this vigorously anti-Nazi philosopher of power was the first non-Jewish professor to be expelled from his post. Thanks to Reinhold Neibuhr’s efforts, Paulus Johannes Tillich became one of Hitler’s gifts to the New World.
Paul Johannes Tillich (1886-1965) was a German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher. Tillich, along with contemporary Karl Barth, is considered by many as one of the most influential Protestant theologians of the twentieth century. Tillich was born in Germany, in 1886.
Paul Tillich exercised a major influence on twentieth century Christian thought. In this brief introduction to his work, Dr. Daniel Peterson makes the case for...
