Tillich

American  

[til-ik, til-ikh] / ˈtɪl ɪk, ˈtɪl ɪx /

noun

1. Paul Johannes 1886–1965, U.S. philosopher and theologian, born in Germany.

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Tillich British  

/ ˈtɪlɪk /

noun

1. Paul Johannes. 1886–1965, US Protestant theologian and philosopher, born in Germany. His works include The Courage to Be (1952) and Systematic Theology (1951–63)

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Example Sentences

“The Jewish nation is the nation of time, in a sense which cannot be said of any other nation,” the German Protestant theologian Paul Tillich explained in 1938:

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2024

Those sermons, he recounted, inspired him to enroll at Union Theological Seminary in New York, where he studied under theologians including Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich.

From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2022

He entered Union Theological Seminary in 1954, studied under Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich and, in 1958, earned a divinity baccalaureate and was ordained as a Presbyterian evangelical, a minister without pastoral charge.

From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2022

As I quote Paul Tillich: “Doubt is not the opposite of faith. It’s a part of faith.”

From Scientific American • May 20, 2020

The Tillich bricks are good playthings, and so is cardboard money—shillings, sixpences, threepences, pence and halfpence.

From The Child under Eight by Murray, E. R. (Elsie Riach)