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Tillich

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

noun

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


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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Perhaps the efforts of science, especially neuroscience, to integrate Buddhism into its own worldview is the realization of what Tillich was imagining.

From Salon • Jan. 14, 2023

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 courage to be,” Tillich later wrote, “is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety and doubt.”

From The Guardian • Dec. 25, 2017

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)