Ultimate Concern and Finitude: Schelling’s Philosophy of Religion and Paul Tillich’s Systematic Theology

This paper explores Paul Tillich’s use of the Friedrich Schelling’s philosophy in his explorations of the relevance of historical forms of Christian belief to contemporary culture, where human experience is marked by anxiety and guilt, and where the search for ultimate meanings seems to dead-end in...

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1. VerfasserIn: Vater, Michael (Verfasst von)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: 2017
In: Philosophy & theology
Jahr: 2017, Band: 29, Heft: 2, Seiten: 381-395
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Zusammenfassung:This paper explores Paul Tillich’s use of the Friedrich Schelling’s philosophy in his explorations of the relevance of historical forms of Christian belief to contemporary culture, where human experience is marked by anxiety and guilt, and where the search for ultimate meanings seems to dead-end in meaninglessness. For Tillich as for Schelling, religion points to metaphysics. The only literal or nonsymbolic truth about God is that God is the affirmation of being over against the possibility of nonbeing, a divine Yes that is an overcoming of a prior No or self-inclusion. The ambiguity of existence as current human beings experience it is itself religious experience.
ISSN:2153-828X
Enthält:Enthalten in: Philosophy & theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.5840/philtheol201782285