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Apr 11, 2024 · 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 became a U.S. citizen in 1940. It is at the Union Theological Seminary that Tillich earned his reputation, publishing a series of books that outlined his particular synthesis of Protestant Christian theology with existentialist philosophy (drawing on research in psychology in the process).
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May 29, 2018 · All three were influenced by the recovery of neglected insights in the Bible, the discovery of existentialism through the writings of Søren Kierkegaard, and the crisis in Western culture wrought by World War I. Tillich was born on Aug. 20, 1886, in Starzeddel, Prussia, the son of Johannes Tillich, a Lutheran minister.
Apr 11, 2018 · As a theologian and philosopher of religion and culture, Paul Tillich transplanted an existentialist discourse on the meaning of life to the United States that had its roots in the disorientation and alienation of Weimar-era German intellectuals. This discourse and its existentialist outlook on life helped Tillich to reinterpret his experience ...
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Jul 22, 2022 · World War I postponed Tillich’s studies in theology; he served as a chaplain in the German army. The horrors of war had a lasting effect on him. Tillich was driven to ask what would permit people to engage in the destruction and death associated with war.
Tillich began his academic career at the University of Berlin after World War I, from 1919 to 1924. He lectured on the philosophy of religion by presenting the theology of culture which related religion to politics, art, philosophy, depth psychology, and sociology respectively.
TILLICH, PAULBorn in Starzeddel, Germany, on August 20, Paul Johannes Tillich (1886–1965) explored the theological and philosophical depths of contemporary culture. His experiences as a German army field chaplain in World War I shook Tillich's confidence in Western civilization, leading him to question its cultural and religious assumptions.
