Paul tillich, systematic theology summary
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Paul Tillich (1886-1965)
1. Background
Tillich's Life and the Development of His Thought
Prewar Years 1886-1918
This period is regarded as Tillich’s preliminary age of his theological development. A portion of his life belonged to the 19th century, characterized by Romanticism. Brought up in the Romantic Movement, Tillich sensed and realized his particular relation to nature and history. Tillich was born on August 20, 1886 in Starzeddel, in the province of Brandenburg, Germany. In 1900, Tillich’s father, a Lutheran pastor, was called to a new position in Berlin. Tillich attended Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium, an advanced high school for preliminary university education. During these years, he studied the philosophy of Fichte and Kant. In 1904, he graduated from school. Soon afterwards he matriculated in several universities located in Berlin, Tubingen, and Halle. During his years in these universities, he became familiar with the works of Schleiermacher, Hegel, and Shelling. In 1911, he received a doctoral degree in philosophy from the University of Breslau,
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Paul Tillich
German-American theologian and philosopher (1886–1965)
Paul Johannes Tillich (;[5]German:[ˈtɪlɪç]; August 20, 1886 – October 22, 1965) was a German-American Christian existentialist philosopher, religious socialist, and Lutheran theologian who was one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century.[6] Tillich taught at German universities before immigrating to the United States in 1933, where he taught at Union Theological Seminary, Harvard University, and the University of Chicago.
For the general public, Tillich wrote the well-received The Courage to Be (1952) and Dynamics of Faith (1957). His major three-volume Systematic Theology (1951–1963) was for theologians; in many points it was an answer to existentialist critique of Christianity.[7]
Tillich's work attracted scholarship from other influential thinkers like Karl Barth, Reinhold Niebuhr, H. Richard Niebuhr, George Lindbeck, Erich Przywara, James Luther Adams, Avery Cardinal Dulles, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Sallie McFague, Richard John Neuhaus,
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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. In response to Tillich’s death in October 1965, King commented: “He helped us to speak of God’s action in history in terms which adequately expressed both the faith and the intellect of modern man” (King, October 1965).
Paul Tillich was born on 20 August 1886, in the province of Brandenburg, Germany, to Johannes Tillich, a Lutheran pastor, and his wife, Wilhelmina Mathilde. He studied at a number of German universities before obtaining his PhD at Breslau in 1911. In 1912 he was ordained as a pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brandenburg. After serving as a chaplain in the German Army during World War I, he taught theology at the Universities of Berlin, Marburg, Dresden, Leipzig, and Frankfurt. Removed from his Frankfurt post due to his public support of leftist intellectuals and Jews during the early Nazi regime, Tillich accepted Reinhold Niebuhr’s i
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