#Paul Tillich

[funeral]

Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be

#paul tillich #the courage to be #quotes

[11990904]

The first duty of love is to listen.

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[theidealistphilosophy]

Doubt is the necessary tool of knowledge.

Paul Tillich, The Courage To Be.

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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

"For when one considers the universe, can anyone be so simple-minded as not to believe that the Divine is present in everything, pervading, embracing and penetrating it?"

~St. Gregory of Nyssa

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"You are accepted by that which is greater than you, and the name of which you do not know. Do not seek for anything. Do not perform anything, do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted."

-Paul Tillich

#incense #St. Gregory of Nyssa #quotes #Paul Tillich

[dzgrizzle]

Usually when I come to this coffeehouse I see at least one person reading the Bible. This morning I see people reading Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, The Stranger by Albert Camus, and The Courage to Be by Paul Tillich (!). The coffeehouse existentialists give me hope for humanity.

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[palatinewolfsblog]

The Courage to Be

(Hommage a Paul Tillich)...

"Doubt is the necessary Tool of Knowledge."

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[noosphe-re]

If one is asked how nonbeing is related to being-itself, one can only answer metaphorically: being "embraces" itself and nonbeing. Being has nonbeing "within" itself as that which is eternally present and eternally overcome in the process of the divine life. The ground of everything that is is not a dead identity without movement and becoming; it is living creativity. Creatively it affirms itself, eternally conquering its own nonbeing. As such it is the pattern of the self-affirmation of every finite being and the source of the courage to be.

Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be

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[jamelalatise]

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfil his destiny.

Paul Tillich

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[altri-menti]

Il primo dovere dell'amore è ascoltare.

(Paul Tillich)

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[marcella-delaney]

If faith is understood as belief that something is true, doubt is incompatible with the act of faith. If faith is understood as being ultimately concerned, doubt is a necessary element in it.

Paul Tillich, Dynamics of Faith, pg. 21

#paul tillich #liberal protestantism #christian existentialism #evangelical lutheranism

[apenitentialprayer]

For God is not exterior to the being he had created; if in one sense he is indeed the "wholly Other," by that very fact he is not "purely other." He is, said Abbé Monchanin, "wholly other than the other." His transcendence brings about an intimate presence. "The transcendent source of spirits, he is their immanent link; he is the Power to whom alone man can and must give absolute obedience, unlimited sacrifice of self; he is the Power who urges us to what is good as such" [George Tyrrell]. As Paul Tillich also says, speaking of faith in the prophets, he is "the creative substratum of all things, always present in all, ever creating and destroying, always felt closer to us than we are to ourselves, while still remaining inaccessible." The voice resounds both outside and inside of the one he calls to believe, and it is in this sense that one can say that the experience of God, which is a sacred experience, since it is the experience of the sacrosanct, is not a simple experience of otherness.

- Henri de Lubac (The Christian Faith: An Essay on the Structure of the Apostles’ Creed, pages 146-147)

#Christianity #God #mysticism #Henri de Lubac #Paul Tillich

[perkwunos]

The doctrine of self-affirmation is a central element in Spinoza’s thought. Its decisive character is manifest in a proposition like this: “The endeavour, wherewith everything endeavours to persist in its own being, is nothing else but the actual essence of the thing in question” (Ethics iii. prop. 7). The Latin word for endeavor is conatus, the striving toward something. This striving is not a contingent aspect of a thing, nor is it an element in its being along with other elements; it is its essentia actualis. The conatus makes a thing what it is, so that if it disappears the thing itself disappears (Ethics ii, Def. 2). ...

... For Spinoza [love toward others] is an implication of [self-affirmation]. Since virtue and the power of self-affirmation are identical, and since “generosity” is the act of going out toward others in a benevolent affect, no conflict between self-affirmation and love can be thought of. This of course presupposes that self-affirmation is not only distinguished from but precisely the opposite of “selfishness” in the sense of a negative moral quality. Self-affirmation is the ontological opposite of the “reduction of being” by such affects as contradict one’s essential nature. Erich Fromm has fully expressed the idea that the right self-love and the right love of others are interdependent, and that selfishness and the abuse of others are equally interdependent. Spinoza’s doctrine of self-affirmation include both the right self-love (although he does not use the term self-love, which I myself hesitate to use) and the right love of others.

Paul Tillich, The Courage To Be

#paul tillich #spinoza

[symphonyoflovenet]

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.

Paul Tillich

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[theidealistphilosophy]

The first duty of love is to listen.

Paul Tillich, Source Unlisted.

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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

“The question of the existence of God can neither be asked nor answered… It is as atheistic to affirm the existence of God as it is to deny it. God is being itself, not a being… As the power of being, God transcends every being and also the totality of beings – the world… Being itself infinitely transcends every finite being.”

—Paul Tillich

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"For in the depth of every serious doubt and every despair of truth, the passion for truth is still at work. Don’t give in too quickly to those who want to alleviate your anxiety about truth. Don’t be seduced into a truth which is not really your truth, even if the seducer is your church, or your party, or your parental tradition. Go with Pilate, if you cannot go with Jesus; but go in seriousness with him!"

-- Paul Tillich

[Poetic Outlaws]

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[soiledlight]

"I do not think of God theistically, that is, as a being, supernatural in power, who dwells beyond the limits of my world. I rather experience God as the source of life willing me to live fully, the source of love calling me to love wastefully and to borrow a phrase from the theologian, Paul Tillich, as the Ground of being calling me to be all that I can be."

—John Shelby Spong

#john shelby spong #god #love #paul tillich