Paul Tillich Quotes


Theology moves back and forth between two poles, the eternal truth of its foundations and the temporal situation in which the eternal truth must be received.


Citations

Tillich, Paul. Systematic Theology, Vol. 1: Reason and Revelation. Being and God. University of Chicago Press, 1951, p. 3.

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Paul Tillich
Paul Tillich
  • Born: August 20, 1886
  • Died: October 22, 1965
  • Nationality: German, American
  • Profession: Theologian Philosopher

Paul Johannes Tillich was a German-American Christian existentialist philosopher and Lutheran Protestant theologian who is widely regarded as one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century. Tillich taught at a number of universities in Germany before immigrating to the United States in 1933, where he taught at Union Theological Seminary, Harvard Divinity School, and the University of Chicago.