Paul Johannes Tillich
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Paul Johannes Tillich 🇵🇱

Paul Tillich (Known as "Philosopher of Ultimate Concern")
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Born Aug 20, 1886 🇵🇱 Starzeddel, German Empire
Passed Away Oct 22, 1965 Chicago, United States
Lifespan 79 years old
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"Faith is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern."

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German-American Christian existentialist philosopher and theologian whose 'The Courage to Be' and 'Systematic Theology' defined faith as the state of being grasped by an 'ultimate concern'.

Biographical Record

Paul Tillich (1886–1965 CE) served as a military chaplain in the trenches of World War I, experiencing deep existential crisis before being dismissed from Frankfurt University for opposing the Nazis in 1933.

Emigrating to Union Theological Seminary and Harvard, he developed the method of correlation, defining God not as a being among beings, but as the 'Ground of Being' itself.

Key Life Milestones

1951

Systematic Theology Volume I Published

Published the first volume of his masterwork correlating existential human questions with Christian theological answers.

1952

The Courage to Be Published

Authored 'The Courage to Be', analyzing existential anxiety and the power of faith to overcome non-being.

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Paul Tillich Park
New Harmony, Indiana, United States
GPS: 38.1306, -87.9356
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