Knowra Paul Tillich Paul Tillich Paul Tillich was a German-American Protestant theologian and philosopher who interpreted Christian faith through existentialist philosophy and modern culture. His work presents God as the ground of being and faith as ultimate concern.
The Courage to Be : Paul Tillich’s 1952 book examines courage as the response to anxiety, nonbeing, and threats to meaning. It develops his account of existential anxiety and the courage that sustains self-affirmation.
Friedrich Schelling : Friedrich Schelling was a German idealist philosopher whose work addressed nature, freedom, and the ground of existence. Tillich’s doctoral studies focused on Schelling, whose ideas shaped his account of being and freedom.
Martin Heidegger : Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher whose analysis of being and human existence influenced twentieth-century thought. Tillich shared existential questions with Heidegger while giving them a theological framework.
Dynamics of Faith : Dynamics of Faith is Paul Tillich’s 1957 book explaining faith as ultimate concern and analyzing its symbols and distortions. This concise work shows how Tillich’s core account of faith applies to religious life.
Systematic Theology (Tillich) : Systematic Theology is Paul Tillich’s three-volume work connecting Christian doctrines with philosophical questions about human existence. This major synthesis carried his method into a comprehensive interpretation of Christian doctrine.
Ultimate concern : Ultimate concern is Paul Tillich’s term for the unconditional commitment that gives a person’s life its organizing meaning. Tillich defines faith through this idea, distinguishing it from mere belief in religious claims.
German idealism : German idealism is a philosophical movement associated with Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel. Its questions about reason, freedom, and reality formed part of Tillich’s intellectual inheritance.
Reinhold Niebuhr : Reinhold Niebuhr was an American Protestant theologian known for Christian realism and analysis of social power. Niebuhr and Tillich became influential colleagues in American Protestant theology.
Theology of Culture : Theology of Culture is Paul Tillich’s approach to interpreting cultural forms as expressions of ultimate concern. It extends his theological method beyond churches and explicitly religious texts.
Existential psychology : Existential psychology studies human experience through themes such as freedom, anxiety, responsibility, and meaning. Tillich’s ideas about anxiety and courage became resources for existential psychologists.
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