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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Since his death in 1965, Paul Tillich has continued to interest and excite the minds and hearts of both scholars and religious seekers. Born in Germany in 1886, young Paulus, as he was called in German, was destined to a career as an academic scholar and an ordained minister in his church.
May 29, 2018 · Paul Johannes Tillich (1886-1965), German-American Protestant theologian and philosopher, ranks as one of the most important and influential theologians of the 20th century. He explored the meaning of Christian faith in relation to the questions raised by philosophical analysis of human existence.
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